BIRDS OF INDIANA. 627 



88. (JgNus OfDEMIA FLEMISH. 



<t l . Wing with large white patch; frontal feathers not reaching farther forward 

 than those on sides of culnien. Subgenus MELANITTA Boie. 



O. deglandi Bonap. 48 



a 2 . Wing with no white patch; frontal feathers reaching nearly or quite to nostrils, 

 none on sides of culmen. Subgenus PELIONETTA Kaup. 



O. perspicillata (Linn.). 49 



Subgenus MELANITTA Boie. 



48. (165). Oidemia deglandi BONAP. 



Velvet Scoter. 

 Synonym, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER. 



Adult Male. Black; speculum and patch under eye, white; feet, 

 orange red, with dusky webs; bill, black, broadly tipped with orange. 

 Female. Sooty brown, grayish below; whitish about head; speculum, 

 white. 



Length, about 21.00; wing, 10.65-11.40; bill, 1.40-1.70; depth of 

 upper mandible at base, 1.10-1.30; tarsus, 1.80-2.10. 



EANGE. Northern North America. Breeds from Labrador and 

 Manitoba to Alaska and Arctic coasts; south in winter to Chesapeake 

 Bay, southern Indiana and southern Illinois. 



Nestj on ground, near fresh water; of twigs, mosses, etc. Eggs, 

 usually 6; pale buff, varying to green; 2.68 by 1.83. 



Eare winter visitor. More numerous on Lake Michigan. 



Dr. Haymond records -it from Franklin County "as numerous in 

 winter" (Ind. Geol. Kept., 1869, p. 223). Mr. Ruthven Deane in- 

 forms me that a bird of this species was taken at English Lake the 

 latter part of October or early part of November, 1889. Two more 

 were killed there early in November, 1890, after a heavy blow off Lake 

 Michigan. Mr. J. Gr. Parker, Jr., sa}^s it is found on Lake Michigan 

 during the winter months, but is rare. This duck has been taken on 

 the Illinois River (Nelson); at St. Louis, Mo. (Allen); on the Scioto 

 River, near Columbus, 0.; at Licking Reservoir; in the vicinity of 

 Cleveland and Sandusky Bay. Dr. J. M. Wheaton, Birds of Ohio, p. 

 538.) 



Subgenus PELIONBTTA Kaup. 



49. (166). Oidemia perspicillata (LINN.). 



Surf Scoter. 

 Synonym, SURF DUCK.. 



Adult Male. Black, with patch of white on the forehead and an- 

 other on the nape; none on the wing; bill, orange red, whitish on the 

 sides, with a large circular black base. Female. Smaller; sooty brown; 



