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(EDEMIA PERSPICILLATA. 



(SURF-SCOTER.) 



Anas nigra major freti hudsonis, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 425 (1760). 



Anas perspicillata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 201 (1766). 



La Macreuse a large bee, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ix. p. 244 (1783). 



Anas latirostris, Bodcl. Tabl. des PL Enl. p. 58 (1783). 



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



Platypus perspicillata (L.), C. L. Brehm, Lehrb. Naturg. eur. Vog. ii. p. 823 (1824). 



(Edemia perspicillata (L.), Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii. pt. ii. p. 219 (1824). 



Macroramplms, Less. {Anas perspicillata, Linn), Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 414 (1828). 



Pelionetta, Kaup (Anas perspicillata, Linn.), Natiirl. Syst. p. 107 (1829). 



Fuligula perspicillata (L.), Aud. Orn. Biogr. iv. p. 161, pi. 317(1838). 



Pelionetta perspicillata (L.), Bp. Compt. Bend, xliii. p. 651 (1856). 



Pelionetta trowbridgii, Baird, B. of N. Am. p. 806 (1858). 



(Edemia perspicillata, var. trowbridgei, Coues, Key, p. 295 (1872). 



Macreuse a large bee, French ; Brillenente, Brillen-Tauchente, German ; Brilleand, Danish ; 

 Hvitnackad Svarta, Swedish. 



Figures notabiles. 



Edwards, Nat. Hist. B. iii. pi. 155 ; DAubenton, PI. Enl. 995 ; Kjaerb. Orn. Dan. Suppl. 

 taf. 8; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 314; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 84. fig. 2; Gould, 

 B. of G. Brit. pi. 30 ; Audub. B. of Am. pi. 402 ; Wilson, Am. Orn. pi. 67. fig. 1. 



d ad. nitide niger, plaga magna in pileo et altera in nucha albis : rostro magno, gibbo, albo, rubro et aurantiaco 

 notato, utrinque macula nigra : iride alba : pedibus pallide rubris. 



2 ad. pileo nigro-fusco : plaga nuchali albida nigro-fusco notata, : capitis lateribus et collo sordide fuscis : 

 plaga suboculari et plaga pone oculos fusco-albidis : corpore reliquo saturate fusco, supra saturatiore, 

 plumis vix pallidiore marginatis : corpore subtiis pallidiore : rostro nigricanti-plumbeo : pedibus 

 olivaceis : iride cinerea. 



Adult Male (Point Lepreaux, Bay of Fundy) . Entire plumage deep glossy black, except a large pure white 

 patch on the centre of the crown, and another on the hind neck; bill peculiarly shaped, the upper 

 mandible being bulged into a large lump on each side of the base, and raised centrally nearly to the 

 tooth ; space round the nostrils rich red, becoming orange-yellow on the sides ; space before and 

 behind this band pure white, tooth of the bill pale yellow ; a large patch on each side of the bill black, 

 the space between this patch and the feathers orange-yellow and vermilion -red ; legs dull pinkish red ; 

 iris white. Total length about 20 inches, gape 2 - 5, wing 9*6, tail 3*6, tarsus 1"8. 



Adult Female (Point Lepreaux). Crown blackish brown; a large triangular white patch on the nape, 

 marked with blackish brown; sides of the head and neck dull brown; a dirty white patch below and in 



