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and legs are reddish : the irides bright yellow : length 

 rather less than that of the male. The young males 

 resemble the females, but the colours on the head are 

 more distinct. 



This species inhabits the eastern countries of Eu- 

 rope : it is particularly abundant in Russia, Livonia, 

 and Fionia ; and is found during its migrations in 

 Austria and Hungary. It is said to construct its 

 nest, on the seas and lakes of Russia, of rushes, and 

 in such a manner as to enable it to float on the water. 

 It feeds on aquatic mollusca and small fishes. 



GREAT-BEAKED SCOTER. 



(Oidemia perspicillata.) 



Oi. nigra, vert ice nuchaque albis, macula nigra rostri pone iiares- 

 Black Scoter with the crown and nape white, and a black spot on 



the beak behind the nostrils. 

 Anas perspicillata. Linn, Syst. Nat. 1.201. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 524. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 847. 

 Anas nigra major freti Hudsonis. Briss. Orn. 6. 425. 

 Macreuse a large bee, Marchand. Bitff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 244. 



Buff.Pl.Enl 995. 



Canard Marchand. Temnt. man. d'Orn. 2 Edit. ii. 853. 

 Black Duck. Edw. Glean.pl. 155. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 483. 



Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 4/9. 



Black, or Surf Duck. JVils. Amer. Orn. viii. p. 49. pi. Lrvii. 

 f. 1. male. 



LENGTH twenty-one inches : beak, with its elevated 

 knob, yellowish, and on each side of it a black spot ; 



