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FEMALE. 
12. ScorTer, 
Descrip- 
TION. 
SCOTER DUCK. Cuass II. 
of velvet; the legs and feet arered, the webs 
black. 
The female is entirely of a deep brown 
color; the marks behind each ear and on the 
wings excepted; the bill is of the same colors 
with that of the male, but wants the protuber- 
ance at the base of it, which Linneus gives 
the male.* 
Anas nigra. A. rostro basi gib- 
bo, corpore toto nigro. Lath. 
Ind. orn. 848. id. Syn. vi. 
480. 
Black Diver, or Scoter. 
orn. 366. 
Raw Syn. av. 141. 
La Macreuse. Ray's Letters, 
161. 
Wil. 
Dale’s hist. Harwich, 405. 
La Macreuse. Brisson au: vi. 
420. Tab. 38. fig. 2.: Hist. — 
dois. ix. 234. Pl. Enl.978. 
Anas nigra. Gm. Lin. 508. 
Faun. Suec. sp. 110. 
Br. Zool. 153. Add. Plates. 
Arct. Zool. ii. 280. 
Tuts species weighs two pounds nine ounces ; 
the length is twenty-two inches; the breadth 
thirty-four. ‘The middle of the bill is of a fine 
yellow, the rest is black; both male and female 
want the hook at the end, but on the base of 
the bill of the former is a large knob, divided by 
a fissure in the middle; the tail consists of 
sixteen sharp pointed feathers, of which the 
middle are the longest; the color of the 
* Faun. Suec. lust edit. 39. 
