VELVET SCOTER. 



VELVET DUCK. 



Anas fusca, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Oidemia fusca, FLEMING. SELBY. 



Anas A Duck. Fusca A dark colour brown. 



THE native regions of this Duck are the northern parts 

 of Europe, Asia, and America. It is numerous in .Russia and 

 Norway, and occurs also in Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Lapland, 

 Sweden, Denmark, Holstein, Holland, Pomerania, Germany, 

 France, Italy, and Switzerland. Thus again in Siberia and 

 Kamtschatka; as likewise in Labrador, Hudson's Bay and the 

 countries about it, stretching sometimes as far south as 

 Georgia. 



They breed in 'central Norway on the lakes and ponds in 

 the vicinity of the sea; on the islands and between the rocks 

 of the bays of Bothnia and Finland; and are particularly 

 plentiful on the Lake Ladoga. The male and female appear 

 in pairs long before the breeding-season, and are apparently 

 inseparable.' 



In Yorkshire, one was shot at Bentley, near Doncaster, by 

 the gamekeeper of Sir W. B. Cooke, Bart.; another on the 

 coast in the winter of 1851, as Mr. William Felkin, Junior, 

 of Carrington, near Nottingham, has informed me; it is 

 obtained occasionally on the moors near Huddersfield, at times 

 also, but seldom, near Burlington. In Oxfordshire, specimens 

 have been seen near Oxford in severe winters. In Berkshire, 

 one near Wargrave, in January, 1795. In Cornwall, the 

 species has occurred near Falmouth, on the River Truro, and 

 the Carrack road. One, a female, at Helford, December 4th., 



