412 



schatka, Japan); Stejn. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 138 (1887) 

 (Commander Islands); Giql. 4- Salvad. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 592 (note) ; 

 Sakad. S^- Giql. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xxxix. p. 119 (Pos8iette 

 Bay), p. i;!l'"(.Tapan) (1888). 

 Fuligula fusca stejnegeri, Seeh.'B. Jap. JEmp. pp. 250 (figure of the 

 head), 252 (1890). 



Adult male. Similar to the male of (E. deglandi, but black of the 

 plumage usually much more intense, and white mark under the ej-e 

 more extended backwards on the temporal region ; knob on the 

 culmen much more elevated, and with anterior outline decidedly 

 concave, the top forming a more or less conspicuous projection ; 

 distance from frontal feathers along top of knob to anterior extre- 

 mity not less than 0'55 ; sides of biU bright red in life. 



Female. Similar to the female of (E. deglandi, but the line of the 

 frontal feathering almost transverse, not forming an angle protruding 

 anteriorly ; in that respect resembles the female of CE. fusca, from 

 which it differs in the feathering of the loral region descending 

 lower than the nostril. 



Hah. North-eastern Asia, south in winter to Japan and China ; 

 ■? North-western America, south in winter to California. 



(There are no adult specimens from Alaska in the British 

 Museum, so that I am unable to decide whether Alaskan birds 

 really belong to (E. earbo.) 



et 



a,b. cj 2 ad. 



c. c? ad. sk. 



d. (5' ad. St. 

 e-h. S 2 ad. 



juv. sk. 

 i. Juv. sic. 

 k. Imm. sk. 

 l,m. c? 2 ad. sk 



n, o. (J 2 imm. 



sk. 

 p. iS ad. sk. 

 <j. (?) Juv. sk. 



Anioor-land [R. Maack). 

 China. 



Shanghai, China. 

 Shanghai, China, March 



{R. Swmhoe). 

 Foochow, Jan. 

 Kurile Island ( O. Snoiu). 

 Ilakndadi, Japan, Feb. 



(Bl(dmton). 

 Ilakodadi, Japan, Dec, 



Jan. (H. Whitely). 

 Nagasaki, Japan. 

 St. Michael's, Alaska, Oct. 



[E. W. Nchon). 



Seebohm Coll. 



Purchased. 



F. Webb, Esq. [P.]. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Gould Coll. 



Gould Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



6. (Edemia perspicillata. 



The Great Black Duck from Hudson's Bay, Edw. Birds, iii. p. & 



pi. 155(1749). 

 Anas nigra mnjor Freti Iludsonis, Briss. Om. vi. p. 425 (1760). 

 Anas perspicillata, Linn. S. N. i. p. 201, n. 25 (1766) ; Forst. Phil. 



Trans. Ixii. p. 417 (1772) ; Gm. S. N. i. 2, p. 524, u. 25 (1788) ; 



Lath. Ind. Om. ii. p. 847, n. 42 (1790) ; Bonn. Enc. Meth. i. p. 138, 



pi. 37. f. 1 (1790) ; Wils. Am. Om. viii. p. 49, pi. 67 (1814) ; 



Vicill. N. D. V. p. 124 (1816); Bum. Diet. Sc. Nat. vi. Tp. 349 



(1817) ; Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2nd ed. ii. p. 853 (1890) ; Bp. Speech. 



Comp. p. 72, n. 250 (1827) ; Less. Tr. d'Oni. p. 630 (1831) ; Te?nm. 



op. cit. iv. p. 542 (1840) ; Naxm. Vog. Deutschl. xii. p. 140, Taf. 



314 (1844) ; Schleq. Rev. Crit. p.cxvii (1844) ; Blas.Namnannia, 



1858, p. 316 (Heligoland) (1869) ; id. in Naum. Vog. Deutschl. xiii. 



