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BIRD NAMES. 



[No. 30. 



Female. Much smaller than adult male; plumage dusky 

 grayish brown, paler or more or less mixed with dull white 

 about throat, lower part of head, lower breast, and belly. Bill 



No. 30. Female. 



with no hump, and plain blackish (or an almost uniform mixt- 

 ure of gray and black). Legs and toes brownish gray, the webs 

 black. 



Young male. Closely resembling female. 



Measurements about those of No. 29, but female of present 

 species often falling short of lowest figures there mentioned. 



Kange, as given in A. O. U. Check List : " Coasts and larger 

 lakes of northern North America ; breeds in Labrador and the 

 northern interior, south in winter to New Jersey, the Great 

 Lakes, and California." 



AMERICAN SCOTER: AMERICAN BLACK SCOTER: formerly 

 believed identical with very similar European species {Oidemia 

 nigra) and referred to simply as SCOTER DUCK, BLACK SCOTER, 

 BLACK DIVER, etc. (without the prefix " American "). 



In Maine, at Eastport, Millbridge, Frenchman's Bay, Ash 



