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part of the tarsus carmine-red, the outer part, and toes, 
orange-red, with the membranes of the toes black. 
The whole of the upper parts of the body of an uniform 
pitch (or brownish) black, the under parts much lighter. 
Between the bill, the eyes, and the auriculars, is a 
patch of greyish-white. Bill blackish-brown. Legs 
and toes dull brick-red. 
The young males are like the females till after the second 
moult. 
SURF SCOTER. 
Omemi4 PERSPICILLATA, Flem. 
PLATE LXIX. 
Oidemia perspicillata, F/em. Br. Anim. 1. 119.—Sveph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 
219. 
Anas perspicillata, Linn. Syst. 1. 201. 25.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 524.—Lath. Ind. 
Orn. 2. 847. sp. 42.— Wiis. Amer. Ornith. 8. 49. pl. 67, f 1. male. 
Anas nigra major, freti Hudsonis, 6. 425. 30. 
Macreuse a large bec, ou Marchand, Buff: Ois. 9. 244.—Id. Pl. Enl. 995. 
Canard Marchand, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 853. 
Black Duck, Edward’s Glean, pl. 15. 5.—Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 483.—Lath. 
Syn. 6. 479. 
Surf Duck, Wi/s. Amer. Orn. 8. 49. pl. 67. f. 1. male. 
Great-beaked Scoter, Shaw’s Zool. 12. 219. 
I wave admitted this bird into the list of stragglers, or 
rare Visitants, as it has been occasionally met with about the 
shores of the Orkney and Shetland Isles. In the high lati- 
tudes of the North American Continent, such as Hudson’s 
and Baffin’s Bays, it is very abundant, and during winter, or 
its equatorial migration, is spread along those coasts, as far 
to the southward as Florida. In this species the bill has not 
that flatness and expansion in front of the nostrils that are 
so conspicuous in Oid. nigra and Oid. fusca, but assumes, 
in a great degree, the characters of the succeeding genus 
Somateria (Eider), by the tip being suddenly contracted, 
and the nail (which is also more convex than in the other 
i 
Female. 
Rare 
visitant. 
