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(EDEMIA FUSCA. 



(VELVET SCOTER.) 



Anas nigra major, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 423 (1760). 



Anas fusca, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 196 (1766). 



La double Macreuse, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ix. p. 242 (1783). 



Anas fuliginosa, Bechst. Gemeinn. Naturg. Deutschl. 2nd ed. iii. p. 962 (1809). 



Anas carlo, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. ii. p. 244 (1811). 



Melanitta fusca (L.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 564. 



Oidemia, Flem. (Anas nigra et fusca), Phil, of Zool. ii. p. 260 (1822). 



Oidemia fusca (L.), Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii. pt. ii. p. 216 (1824). 



Platypus fuscus (L.), C. L. Brehm, Lehrb. Naturg. eur. Vog. ii. p. 822 (1824). 



Melanitta homschuchii, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 904 (1831). 



Melanitta megapus, C. L. Brehm, op. cit. p. 906 (1831). 



Melanitta platyrhynchos, C. L. Brehm, op. cit. p. 907 (1831). 



Fuligula fusca (L.), Degl. Orn. Eur. ii. p. 472 (1849). 



Oedemia homschuchii, C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 383 (1855). 



Oedemia fusca (L.), C. L. Brehm, op. cit. p. 383 (1855). 



Oedemia megapus, C. L. Brehm, op. cit. p. 384 (1855). 



Oedemia platyrhynchos, C. L. Brehm, op. cit. p. 384 (1855). 



Grande-Macreuse, French ; Sammetente, Sammet-Trauerente, German ; Be groote Zee'eend, 

 Dutch ; Flbielsand, Danish ; Sjo-orre, Norwegian ; Svarta, Swedish ; Pillckasiipi, Finnish. 



Figurm notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, PL Enl. 956, 1007; Werner, Atlas, Palmipedes, pi. 49; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. 

 taf. 48, and Suppl. taf. 28; Frisch, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 165; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 50. 

 fig. 1, taf. 52. fig. 6; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 313; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 61. 

 figs. 1, 2 ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 377 ; id. B. of G. Brit. v. pi. 29 ; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. 

 pi. 308; Eoux, Orn. Prov. pi. 368. 



J ad. nitide niger, macula parva pone oculos et stria obliqua, in alis albis : rostro aurantiaco, gibbo, naribus et 

 marginibus nigris : iride fusca, : pedibus rubris, membrana natatoria nigricanti-rubra. 



2 ad. capite et collo nigro-fuscis, macula anteoculari et macula parva, pone oculos albicantibus : corpore supra 

 nigro-fusco, plumis pallidiore marginatis : corpore subtus pallidiore, albicanti notato : rostro nigricanti- 

 plumbeo : iride fusca, : pedibus sordide rubris. 



Adult Male (Stockholm, 30th May) . Entire plumage deep glossy black, the underparts rather duller and 

 browner; wings black, except the short secondaries, which are white and form a conspicuous band 

 across the wing; a small white patch below the eye; bill broad, swollen over the nostrils, this portion 



