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SunciENusJPELIONETTA Kau i- 



(Male.) 



(Female.) 



01 DEMI A PER5PICILLATA (Z/////.) 

 Surf Scoter. Sea Coot. 



.Idiilt male : General plumage black, no white on the wing ; head Ijlack with a white 

 patch on the forehead and nape ; feathers on the bill less than one half inch from the 



nostril. A peculiar highly colored bill is one of the distingui.shin<;- marks of the male of this 

 species, it being- orange, yellow, black, and white, the feathers on the top of the bill extending 

 much farther forward than on the sides. 



The female and immature brownish, showing a whitish spot at the base of the bill and back 

 of the eyes: the female having the upper parts brownish; under parts ashy gray shading into 

 whitish on the belly. 



Length. 20.50: Wing, 9.60: Tarsus, 1.65; Bill (culmen), 1.50; side measure, 2.35. 



This species may always be distinguished from O. anicn'caua h\ the 

 forward extension of the feathers on the top of the bill and from O. c/coiaju/i 

 by the absence of the white wing patch. It ranges along the coast of 

 Northern North America and southward in winter to Florida and has i)een 

 recorded from Jamaica. In the winter of 1894-5 it was common about Lake 

 Worth btil is ustiallv not numerous in Florida. 



The eggs are described as being buffy or dull white and five to eight 

 in number. 



