4§o DUCK. 



36. Anas Nigra, hits. Sv/l. i. p. 196. 7.— Faun. Suec. N" i\Q.—"Mulltr, N" 



SCOTER D. II0 . 



La Macreufe, Br!/. Orn. vi. p. 420. 28. pi. 38. fig. 2. — Buf. Oi/l ix. p. 



234. pi. 16.— PL Enl. 978. 

 Scoter, or Black Diver, Raii Syn. p. 141. A. 5. — Will. Orn. p. 366. pi. 74. 



— Br. Zoel. ii. N° 273. — ArB. Zool. N° 484. 

 Lev. Muf. 



Deicription. npHIS is a trifle lefs than the Velvet Buck : length twenty- 

 two inches : weight two pounds nine ounces. The bafe of 

 the bill furnifhed with a knob, as in that bird, which is red, 

 and divided down the middle by a yellow line ; the colour of the 

 bill is yellow above, edged with black, and the under mandible 

 wholly black : the eye-lids are yellow : the eyes black : the plu- 

 mage is wholly black : the head and neck gloffy : the under 

 parts dull : the legs are brown *. 

 Female. The female has no knob on the upper mandible: the colours 



dull j and in the chin, and middle of the bread, fome afh-co- 

 loured or whitifh feathers mingled with the black : otherwife 

 like the male -f. 

 Place and This fpecies is found on the northern coafls of England and 



Manners. thofe of Scotland, in the winter feafon ; but no where fo com- 

 mon as on the French coafis, where they are feen in prodigious 

 numbers, from November to March, efpecially if the wind be 

 to the north or north-wejl. Their chief food is a gloffy bivalve 



• " The male hath no labyrinth on its ■wind-pipe." — Willughby. 



f Willughhy mentions the defcription of a female fent to him, which had 

 " the neck and head, on both fides, as far as the eyes, white." See Orn. 

 P- 367. 



fhell, 



