ScoTER. . NATATORES. OIDEMIA. 333 
VELVET SCOTER. 
Ozemria Fusca, Flem. 
PLATE LXVII. 
Oidemia fusca, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 119. sp. 173.—Shaw’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. pl. 72. f. 3. male. 
Anas nigra major, Raii Syn. 141. A. 4.— Will. p. 278. pl. 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, Wii. (Angl.) 363. 670. 
Velvet Duck, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 583. No. 272. pl. 96.—Arct. Zool. 2. 482. 
—Lath. Syn. 6. 482. 37.—Id. Sup. 274.—Id. Sup. 2. 350——/d. in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. 4. 119. pl. 15. f. 3. (Trachea.)—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 7. 247.— 
Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 20.—Mont. Orn. Dict.—IJd. Sup.—Bewick’s Br. 
Birds, ed. 1826. 2. p. t. 320.— Wiis. Amer. Orn. 8. 151. pl. 72. f. 3. 
Velvet Scoter, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 119.—Jd. 173.— Shaw's Zool. 12. 216. 
Provinc1aL.—Black Diver, Double Scoter, Black Duck. 
Tuts 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 
winter visitant upon our coasts, and frequents the same loca- pee 
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 Oid. 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. 'TEMmincx’s distinctive character 
of this species is therefore inapplicable, when he says, “ Bec 
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 
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