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Oidemia perspicillata'lLiuu.) 



SUEF SCOTIE. 

 Popular synonyms. Surf Duck: Sea Duck; Skunk-bill; Skunk-head Coot; Horse-heail 

 Coot, or Horse-head; Hollow-billed Coot (New England); Gray Coot; Spectao'ed 

 Coot: Surf Coot (Long Island); Google-nose: Patch-liead; Plaster-bill; iSnufT- 

 taker; Moroc(^o-ja\v ; Blcssom-bill, etc., etc.* 

 Anas perspicUliila LiNX. S. N. ed. 10. i. 17;8. 125; od. 12. i. 1700. 201.— Wli,s. Am. Orn. viii. 

 182). 49. pi. 67. 

 Oidemia perspicilluta Stephens. Gen. Zool. xii. pt. ii. 1821. 21'.i.— Sw. & IJica. F. B.- A. ii. 



1831, 4-19.— A. O. U. CUouk List. 1880. No. 160.— Ridgw. M;in. N. Am. B. 1887. 113. 

 Fuligula iOidemta) persi/icilhita Bonap. Syuop. 1828. 3Sa.— Nutt. Man. ii. 1834. 416. 

 CEdemia perspicillala CouES, Key. 1872, 21i4; Check List. 1873. No. 518; 2d ed. 1882. No. 



739; B. N. W. 1874. 582. 

 Pelionetia perspicillata Eeioh. Syst. Av. 1852, p. viii.— Baibd, E. N. Am. 1858. 8li0; 

 Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, No. 602.— Eidgw. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881. No. C33.-B. B. & K. 

 Water B. N. Am. ii. 1881. 93. 

 Fuligula perspicillata AuD. Orn. Biog. iv. 183S.',161. pi. 317; SynoD. 1839.289: B. Am. vi. 

 1843. 337. pi. 402. 

 Pelionetta troicbridgii Baied. B. N. Am. 1858. 806; Cat. N.iAm. B. 1859. No. 603. 



(Edemia perspicillata, \a.r. troicbridgii CouES. Key,1872. 295; Check List, 1873, No. 518 n. 

 (Edemia perspicillata, b. troicbridgii CouES. B. N. W. 1874, 592. 

 (Edemia perspicillata trowbridgii CouES. Chock List, 2d od. 1882, No. 740. 

 Hab. Coasts and larger inland waters of northern North America; south in winter 

 to Atlantic coast of the United States, to the Ohio River. Kansas, etc.. in the inferior, and 

 Lower California, on the Pacific side; accidental in Europe. Jamaica (and other West 

 India islands?) in winter. 



8p. Chab. Adult male: General color deep black, very intense above, more sooty 

 on the lower surface: a white patch on the forehead, the anterior outline ^semicircular 

 or somewhat angular, and reaching forward a little in advance of the llateral base of 

 the bill, the posterior outline almost directly transverse, and la little posterior to 

 the middle of the eye: nape with a somewhat shield-shaped, or cuneate. longitudinal 

 patch of pure white, having the upper outline almost directly transverse. Bill chietly 

 orange-red. deeper (intense red in some specimens) above the nostrils; swollen base ot 

 the maxilla with a large, irregularly roundish, somewhat nuadratc. or trapezoid, spot 

 of deep black, with a light-colored space (bluish white in life) in front, as far as the nos- 

 trils; nails duller orange, or dingy grayish; iris yellowish white: feet orange-red. ihi' 

 webs greenish dusky: claws black. "Upper mandible with a nearly square bliu;k patch 

 at the base, margined with orange, except in front, where there is a patch of bluish 

 white extending to near the nostrils, prominent partovertho nostrils deep reddish orange, 

 becoming lighter toward the unguis, and shaded into rich yellow toward the margins: 

 the unguis dingy grayish yellow; lower mandible flesh-colored, unguis darker. Iris 

 bright yellowish white. Tarsi and toes orange-red. with webs di^sky. tinged with green: 

 claws black" (Audubon). Adult female: Pileum i.nd nape brownish black; rest of the 

 head ashy brown, with an Indistinct whitish patch (not always Indicated) on the lower 

 anterior portion of Ihe lores, bordering the lateral base of the bill; upper parts browni>h 

 dusky, the contour feathers somotimos showing paler tips; lower parts fraylsh brown, 

 becoming nearly white on the abdomen, the feathers of the breast and sides tipped wlih 

 the same, the anal region and crissum uniform dusky. Bill greenish black, si'arociv 

 swollen at the base, where the black spot of the male Is slightly, if at all. indicated: iris 

 yellowish white: "feot yellowish orange, webs grayish dusky, claws black" (Audubon). 

 Yuung: Similar to the adult female, but head with two quite distinct whitish patches. 



•C/. Tbumbuix. A'dTiiej and Portraitu nf Birds. 



