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BIEDS OF EGYPT. 



the neck below the nape bhick ; remainder of the plumage 

 ferruginous brown, freckled with pale brown and dusk}', 

 darkest on the fore part of the chest, flanks, and upper tail- 

 coverts ; lower parts of the chest and abdomen dirty white ; 

 tail black ; legs black ; beak blue-grey, without a spot ; irides 

 brown. 



Entire length 18 inches; culmen TS; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 6 ; tarsus 1'3. 



314. GIdemia fusca (Linn.). Velvet Scoter. 



According to Von Heuglin (Syst. Ueb. p. C7) the present 

 species is to be met with singly in Lower Egypt in the 

 winter. 



Male. — Entire plumage velvety black, excepting a patch 

 behind the eye and a bar across the wing, which are pure 

 white ; beak orange, with its margin and a swelling near the 

 nostrils black ; legs bright red ; irides yellow. 



Entire length 23 inches; culmen 1'7; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 11 ; tarsus 1'8. 



Female. — Blackish brown, with the under surface of the 

 body dirty white, streaked and spotted with brown ; on the 

 sides of the head some irregular patches of brownish white, 

 and a white bar across the wing ; beak dusky ; legs brownish 

 red. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 377. 



