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SCOTER DUCK. 



Class II. 



of velvet ; the legs and feet are red, the webs 

 black. 

 Female. The female is entirely of a deep brown 

 color; the marks behind each ear and on the 

 wings excepted ; the bill is of the same colors 

 with that of the male, but wants the protuber- 

 ance at the base of it, which LinncEus gives 

 the male.* 



12. Scoter. Anas nigra. A. rostrobasigib- 



bo, corporetoio nigro. Lath. 



Ind. orn. 848. id. Syn.vi. 



480. 

 Black Diver, or Scoter, ffll. 



orn. 366. 

 Rail Syn. av. 141. 

 La Macreuse. Ray's Letters, 



\6\. - ... - 



Dale's his-t. Harwich, 405. 

 La Macreuse. Brisson av. vi. 



4S0. Tal: 33. J?g. 2. Hist. 



d'ois.ix. 234. PL E?il.g78. 

 Anas nigra. Gm. Lin. 508. 

 Faun. Suec. sp. 110. 

 Br. Zool. 153. Jdd. Plates. 



Arct. Zool. ii. 280. 



Descrip- 

 tion-. 



X HIS species weighs two pounds nine ounces ; 

 the length is twenty-two inches ; the breadth 

 thirty-four. The middle of the bill is of a fine 

 yellow, the rest is black ; both male and female 

 want the hook at the end, but on the base of 

 the bill of the former is a large knob, divided by 

 a fissure in the middle; the tail consists of 

 sixteen sharp pointed feathers, of which the 

 middle are the longest; the color of the 



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