SCOTER. NATATORES. OIDEMIA. 333 



VELVET SCOTER. 



OIDEMIA FUSCA, Flem. 

 PLATE LXVII. 



Oidemia fusca, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 119. sp. 173 Show's Zool. 12. 116. 

 Anas fusca, Linn. Syst. 1. 196. 6 Gmel Syst. 1. 507 Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 



848. sp. 44 Wils. Amer. Orn. 8. 151. pi. 72. f. 3. male. 

 Anas nigra major, Raii Syn. 141. A. 4 Will. p. 278. pi. 70 Briss. Orn. 



6. 423. 29. 



Grande ou double Macreuse, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 854. 

 Samme-ente, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 954 Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 2. 



516. 



Great Black Duck, Will. (Angl.) 363. 670. 

 Velvet Duck, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 583. No. 272. pi. 96 Arct. Zool. 2. 482. 



Lath. Syn. 6. 482. 37 Id. Sup. 274 Id. Sup. 2. 350 /rf. in Trans. 



Linn. Soc. 4. 119. pi. 15. f. 3. (Trachea.) Lezmw's Br. Birds, 7. 247 



Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 20 Mont. Oin. Diet. Id. Sup Bewick's Br. 



Birds, ed. 1826. 2. p. t. 320. Wils. Amer. Orn. 8. 151. pi. 72. f. 3. 

 Velvet Scoter, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 119. Id. 173.- Shaw's Zool. 12. 216. 



PROVINCIAL. Black Diver, Double Scoter, Black Duck. 



THIS species is much larger than the preceding, and may 

 always be distinguished from it by the form of the bill, as 

 well as by the white band upon the wings, and a spot of the 



same colour at the posterior angle of the eye. It is a regular Periodical 



visitant. 



winter visitant upon our coasts, and frequents the same loca- 

 lities as the Black Scoter, with which it frequently associates, 

 and to which it bears a close resemblance in its general ha- 

 bits. Its bill approaches in form nearer to that of Old. per- 

 spicillata, the tubercle at the base not rising immediately in 

 front as in Oid. nigra, but being double, and rising on the 

 sides, where they, however, differ even from those of the 

 former bird, in being partly covered by small feathers, and 

 not left entirely exposed. TEMMINCK'S distinctive character 

 of this species is therefore inapplicable, when he says, " Bee 

 sans renflemens lateraux." The wings, also, of this and 

 Oid. perspicillata differ in their proportions from those of 

 Oid. nigra^ the first quill being longer than the second, and 

 the longest in the wing. This feather also tapers gradually 



