104 
Anas persprcllata siecreseeserees Linn. Syst. 1. 261. 
Gmel. Syst. 1. 524. 
Oidemia persprcllata s..cee.ecees Steph. Sh. Zool. 12. 219. — 
Eyton, Hist. R. Brit. Birds, 81. 
Black or Surf Duck cicicccveess Wils. Am. Orn. viii. p. 49, pl. 67. 
Black Duck ...ccccccveseveveneeees Edw. Glea, p. 155. 
Macreuse a large bec Marchand Buff. Ois. 9. 244. 
Canard Marchand.......eeeee Temm. Man. 2. 8538. 
Common in America, along the coast from the River St. Lawrence 
to Florida, and has also been occasionally met with in the Orkney 
and Shetland Isles; it almost exclusively inhabits the sea. The 
female of this species may be distinguished from that of O. nigra, 
which it somewhat resembles, by the superior length of the bill, and 
by the grey marking on the cheeks behind the eye—that colour 
in the above-mentioned bird being confined entirely to the throat. 
MELANITTA FUSCA. 
Mel.—Ater, speculo et macula lunata suboculari albis. 
VELVET DUCK. 
Black duck, with the speculum and a lunate mark under the eye 
white. 
IN. : IN. 
Length  sseverserereseeees 20 Pag Gt. ca oauis tatmeen peo mage 
2) Se peey eee ee WP geer Middle toe .. ssesscere 3 
Male: entirely deep velvet black, with a lunate spot and a mark 
~ under the eye white; bill and legs orange, the former with a tubercle 
at the base; a space before it and the margins black; webs black. 
Fem.: has the plumage above sooty black, below dirty grey; the 
tubercle at the base of the bill smaller than in the male. 
Young similar to the female. 
Melanitta fused ..cscccreeceeeeres Boie in Brehm. Hand. der 
Natt. aller, Vo Duet. 905. 
ANAS FUSCH cs ecesreaeneceees seasee Linn. Syst. 1. 196. 
Gmel. Syst. 1. 507. 
Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 848. — 
Oidemic FUSCH csereeserecccreeeeers Flem. Brit. An. 119. 
Steph. Sh. Zool. 12. 216. 
Velvet Duck... cscovrsceseveseees Penn. Aret. Zool. 2.272. pl. 196. 
Grand ou double macreuse...-.+ Buff. Ois. 9.242. 
Trache@ i. .ccocceceess sc abheea than Linn. Trans. vol. 4, tab. 15, 
fig. 8, 4,5, 6,7; and vol. 
16, tab. 21, fig. 2, 3. 
