ORDER ANSERES. 81 
RancE.— Northern North America and eastern Asia. Breeds in 
northeastern Asia and from Kotzebue Sound to Aleutian Islands, in- 
cluding Near Islands; also on west shore of Hudson Bay, Ungava, 
and Newfoundland; winters on Asiatic coast to Japan and from is- 
lands of Bering Sea south rarely to Santa Catalina Island, California; 
in the interior not rare on the Great Lakes, and casual or accidental 
in Missouri, Louisiana, Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming; on the 
Atlantic coast abundant during migration from Newfoundland and 
Maine south (rarely to Florida). 
Suscenus MELANITTA Bote. 
Melanitia Born, Isis, X, 1822, 564. Type, by subs. desig., Anas fusca 
Linnxus (Eyton, 1838). 
[Oidemia fisca (LINN&%US). Velvet Scoter. [164.] 
Anas fusca LiInNmus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 123. (Sweden.) 
RancE.— Northern part of Eastern Hemisphere, breeding from 
Iceland east to Bering Strait; accidental in Greenland.] 
Oidemia deglandi Bonaparte. White-winged Scoter. [165.] 
Oidemia deglandi BONAPARTE, Revue Crit. Orn. Eur., 1850, 108. (North 
America.) 
RanceE.— North America. Breeds from the coast of northeastern 
Siberia, northern Alaska, northern Mackenzie, and northern Ungava 
south to central British Columbia, Alberta, northern North Dakota, 
and southern Quebec; winters on the Asiatic coast to Bering Island, 
Japan, and China, and in North America from Unalaska Island to 
San Quintin Bay, Lower California, the Great Lakes (casually to 
Colorado, Nebraska, and Louisiana), and the Atlantic coast from the 
Gulf of St. Lawrence south (rarely) to Florida; non-breeding birds 
occur in summer as far south as Rhode Island and Monterey, 
California. 
