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VELVET SCOTER. 



(Oidemia fusca.) 



Oi. nigricans, palpebra injeriore specidoque alarum albis. 

 Dusky Scoter with the lower eyelid and speculum of the wing 



white. 

 Anas fusca. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 196. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 507. 



Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 848. 



Anas nigra major. Briss. Orn. 6. 423. Rail, Syn. 141. A. 

 Grande, ou Double Macreuse. Bnjf. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 242. 



Buff. PI. Enl. 956. Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 533. 

 Canard Double Macreuse. Temm.man,d J Orn.552. Id. 2 Ed. 



ii. 854. 



Great Black Duck. Willough. 363.pl. 70. 

 Velvet Duck. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 272. pi. 196. Penn. Arct. 



Zool. 2. 482. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 482. Lath. Syn. Sup. 274. 



Lath. Syn. Sup. ii. 350. Lath. iLnn. Trans, iv. 119. pi. 15. 

 f. 37- (trachea.) Wale. Syn. I. pi. 58. Lew. Brit. Birds, 



7. pi. 247. Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. and Sup. Bew. Brit. Birds, 



2. 322. Wils, Amer. Orn. v. viii. p. 137. pi. xcii.y^ 3. male. 



UPWARDS of twenty-one inches in length : the base 

 of the beak, which is slightly elevated, the nostrils, 

 and the outer margin of the mandibles are black; the 

 hook at its tip is yellowish-red ; the rest of the beak 

 yellow-orange : the irides are red : the entire plu- 

 mage is velvety black, with a white lunule beneath 

 the eyes, and a small white speculum on the wings : 

 the tarsi and toes are red ; the membranes black. 

 The female has all the plumage of the upper parts of 

 a dusky-brown, or soot-colour : the under parts are 

 whitish-grey, rayed and spotted with blackish-brown : 

 between the eyes and the beak, and also upon the 



