GREAT-BEAKED SCOTER. 



the rest of the beak orange; its hook red, with its 

 edges black : on the forehead is a patch of white, and 

 on the back of the neck another : the rest of the 

 plumage is of a dull sooty black : the legs are red ; 

 the membranes dusky. The female has two dull 

 white spots on the cheeks, with the rest of her plu- 

 mage of a dull sooty black : she is rather less than 

 the male. 



Native of North America, where it appears to be 

 in plenty : it breeds on the shores of Hudson's Bay, 

 making its nest with grass, and lining it with fea- 

 thers : the female lays from four to six white eggs, 

 which are hatched at the end of July : they are shy 

 birds, and delight in diving about amongst the most 

 impetuous surf. Wilson says that they are peculiar 

 to America ; but recent voyagers have noticed them 

 among the Orcades and other high European lati- 

 tudes. 



" On dissection there appears a singular hard ex- 

 pansion at the commencement of the windpipe, and 

 another much larger about three-quarters of an inch 

 above where it separates into the two lobes of the 

 lungs : this last is larger than a Spanish hazel nut, flat 

 on one side and convex on the other." Wilson. 



