50. (EDEMU. 



403 



Adult female. Entire plumage velvety black, with a dark purple 

 glosR on head and neck and a f^reenish one on the back ; underparts 

 rather duller, with a brownish tinge ; bill black, except a yellow 

 patch on the culmen round the nostrils, the base swollen into a 

 roundish bulb ; iris dark brown ; legs and feet brownish black, 

 darkest on the webs. Total length about 20 inches, wing 9"5, tail 

 b'2, culmen 1"9, tarsus \-b. 



Female. Dark brown, paler below, the feathers with lighter 

 edges ; sides of the head and of the upper part of the neck and throat 

 dull grey, with a brownish tinge ; bill without the bulb at the base, 

 only slightly swollen towards the base of the upper mandible, dull 

 black in colour. 



Toimrj. Resembles the female, but it is duller and rather more 

 uniform in colour, and much more white on the abdomen. 



A young male resembles the female, but has many black feathers. 



Males in moulting-dress are unknown. 



Toumj in down are unspotted dark brown on the upper parts and 

 across the breast ; throat white ; belly greyish brown ; bill blackish 

 plumbeous ; legs olivaceous. 



Hah. iS^orthern parts of the Patearctic Region, east to the Taimyr 

 Peninsula ; winters in the Baltic and on the coasts of Western 

 Europe, occasionally straying as far south as the Azores and the 

 ilediterranean. 



r 



a. $ ad. St. 



b. 1^ ad.sk. 



c. 2 juv. sk. 



d. e. rf" 2 ad. sk. 



/. tS ad. sk. 



g. c? ad. sk. 

 h. <5 juv. sk. 



i. (S ad. St. 

 k. (S ad. St. 



I, m. c? ad. St. et 



2 juv. sk. 

 n. c? ad. St. 

 o,p. (S 2 'id. sk. 



g. c? juv. sk. 

 r. 2 juv. sk. 

 s. 2 juv. sk. 

 t. Juv. sk. 

 u. 2 inim. sk, 

 V. 2 inim. sk. 

 w. 2 juv. sk. 

 X. cJ juv. sk. 



y. 2 ^- sk. 



Great Britain. 

 London Market, Feb. 

 Aberdeenshire ( W. C. 



Angus). 

 Caithness, June. 



Holkham Bav, Norfolk, 



Feb. 

 Yamiouth, Norfolk, Dec. 

 Hickling, Norfolk, March. 



Wales. 

 Somersetshire. 



Somersetshire. 



Kingsbury Reservoir. 

 Cambridge Market, Feb., 



Nov. 

 Devonshire, Jan. 

 Fowey, Cornwall, Au^. 

 Southampton Water, Jan. 

 Hythe, Nov. 

 Tangier. 



Tangier (Olcessi). 

 Tunis. 

 Archangel. 



Petchora. 



Purchased. 



Seebohm Coll. 



H. J. Elwes, Esq. [P.]. 



Colonel Irbv and Capt. 



Reid [P.]'. 

 Capt. Feilden [P.J. 



H. J. Elwes, Esq. [P.]. 

 Baron A. von Hiigel 



[P.]. 

 Rev. A. Morgan [P.]. 

 Hon. W. C. Fitz- 



maurice [P.]. 

 Montagu Coll. 



J. E. Harting, Esq. [P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



E. Revnolds, Esq. IT.]. 

 Dr. Glinther [P.]. ^ 



R. E. Coles, Esq. [P.]. 

 H. J. Elwes, Esq. [P]. 



F. J. Favier, Esq. 

 SheUev Coll. 

 L. Friser[C.l. 

 R. B. Sharoe, 



[P.]. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 2d2 



P.]. 



Esq. 



