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SuHc.KNus PELIONETTA Kaui> 



(Male.) 



(Female.) 



OIDEMIA PER5PICILLATA (Z/;///.). 



Surf Scoter. Sea Coot. 



Adult male : General plumage black, no white on the wing ; head l)lack witli a white 

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



nostril. A pecuHar highly colored l)ill i.s one of the distingui.shing marks of tiie male of this 

 species, it being orange, yellow, lilack, and white, the feathers on the top of the l)ill e.xtending 

 much farther forward than on the sides. 



The female and immature brownish, showing a wliitish spot at tiie l)ase of the Ijill and liack 

 of the eyes: the female having the upper parts JM-ownish : 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. aiucricaua by the 

 forward extension of the feathers on the top of the bill and from O. dci^laiidi 

 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 been 

 recorded from Jamaica. In the winter of 1S94-5 it was common about Lake 

 Worth but is usually not munerous in Florida. 



The eo"gs are described as being buffy or dull white and li\e to eight 

 in number. 



