CEDEMIA AMERICANA : VELVET DUCK. 



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there dusky-speckled, on the sides and flanks dusky-waved ; 

 throat and sides of head mostly continuous whitish ; bill all 

 black ; feet livid olivaceous, with black webs. Male nearly 2 

 feet long; wing about 10 inches; female 18.00-19.00 inches; 

 wing, 8.00-9.00; gape, 2.00; culmen, 1.75. Differs from the 

 European in the shape and coloration of the protuberance on the 

 bill. 



Fig. 70. — Female Black Scoter, with Outline of Bill from below. 



A winter resident along the coast, not very common, 

 but more so during the autumnal and vernal migrations. 

 Like the rest of the genus it is a sea-duck, occurring 

 inland only exceptionally or upon the larger bodies 

 of water. 



VELVET DUCK: WHITE-WINGED 

 SCOTER. 



OEdemia fusca (Z.) Szv. 



Chars. Bill broadly encroached upon by the frontal feathers, 

 on the culmen nearly or quite to the nostrils, and on its sides to 

 a less extent, shorter than head, black, broadly orange-tipped 



