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Range. — Northern North America and eastern Asia. Breeds in 

 northeastern Asia and from Kotzebue Sound to Aleutian Islands, in- 

 cluding Near Islands; also on west shore of Hudson Bay, Ungava, 

 and Newfoundland; winters on Asiatic coast to Japan and from is- 

 lands of Bering Sea south rarely to Santa Catallna Island, California; 

 in the interior not rare on the Great Lakes, and casual or accidental 

 in Missouri, Louisiana, Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming; on the 

 Atlantic coast abundant during migration from Newfoundland and 

 Maine south (rarely to Florida). 



Subgenus MELANITTA Boie. 



Melanitta Boie, Isis, X, 1822, 564. Type, by subs, desig., Atms fusca 

 ■ LinnjBUS (Eyton, 1838). 



[Oidemia fusca (Linn^us). Velvet Scoter. [164.] 



Anas fusca Linnjbus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 123. (Sweden.) 



Range. — Northern part of Eastern Hemisphere, breeding from 

 Iceland east to Bering Strait; accidental in Greenland.] 



Oidemia deglindi Bonapaete. White-winged Scoter. [165.] 



Oidemia deglandi Bonapabte, Revue Crit. Orn. Eur., 1850, 108. (North 

 America.) 



Range. — North America. Breeds from the coast of northeastern 

 Siberia, northern Alaska, northern Mackenzie, and northern Ungava 

 south to central British Columbia, Alberta, northern North Dakota, 

 and southern Quebec; winters on the Asiatic coast to Bering Island, 

 Japan, and China, and in North America from Unalaska Island to 

 San Quintin Bay, Lower California, the Great Lakes (casually to 

 Colorado, Nebraska, and Louisiana), and the Atlantic coast from the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence south (rarely) to Florida; non-breeding birds 

 occur in summer as far south as Rhode Island and Monterey, 

 California. 



