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ANATID^, DUCKS. GEN. 269. 



Fig, 193. Female Black Scoter, with outline of bill viewed from below. 



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grayish-white on the belly, there dusky-speclded, on the sides and flanks 

 dusliy-wavcd ; throat and sides of head mostly continuous whitish ; bill all 

 black; feet livid olivaceous, with black webs. $ nearly 2 feet long; 

 wing about 10 inches : ? 18-19 inches ; wing 8-9 ; gape 2 ; culmen If. 

 Differs from the European in the shape and coloration of the protuberance 



on the bill. Wils., 

 viii, 135, pi. 72, f. 

 2; NuTT., ii, 422 

 and 423 ; Aud., vi, 

 343, pi. 403; Bd., 



807. . AMERICANA. 



Velvet Scoter. 

 White-ivinged Surf- 

 ducJc. Bill broadly 

 encroached upon by 

 the frontal feathers, 

 on the culmen nearly 

 or quite to the nostrils, and on its sides to a less extent, shorter than head, 

 black, broadly orange-tipped ( <J ) ; nail broad and truncate ; gibbosity 

 superior, circumscribed. (31elaneita .) $ black, with a large white wiug- 

 patch, and another under the eye; feet orange-red, with dusky webs. Size 

 of the last, or rather larger; 9 smaller, sooty-brown, pale grayish below, 

 with much whitish about head, but showing white speculum ; bill all black. 

 Said to differ from the European by greater encroachment of feathers on bill, 

 but the ascribed feature is not tangible. Wils., viii, 137, pi. 72, f. 3; 

 NuTT, ii, 419 ; Aud., vi, 332, pi. 401 ; M. velvetina Bd., 805. Also, FuU- 

 gula bimaculata Herbert, Field Sports, ii, 2d ed. 366 ; 0. himaculatci Bd., 



808 (immature) fusca (var?) 



Surf Dicck. Sea Coot. Bill narrowly encroached upon by the frontal 

 feathers, on the culmen nearly or quite to the nostrils, but not at all upon 

 its sides, about as\ 

 long as head, with 

 the nail narrowed 

 anteriorljs the 

 swellius; lateral as 

 well as superior ; 

 nostrils beyond its 

 middle ; bill of <J 

 orange-red, whitish 

 on the sides, with a 

 large circular black 

 spot on each side at 

 the base ; tail nor- 

 mally 14-feathered ^"^' ^^^' ^'"""5' '""'" ®"''f Duck, M-ith outline of bill viewed from below. 



(Pelionelta.) ^ black, with a triangular white patch on the forehead and 

 another on the nape ; no white 011 wings ; feet orange, with dusky webs. 



