276 duck. 



A. — Bill pale lead-colour, near the end of the upper mandible 

 a patch of white; head and neck waved with dusky white and 

 brown ; hindhead rather full of feathers, and brown ; hind part of 

 the neck and back the same ; the feathers of the last margined with 

 pale brown ; from the breast to the thighs dusky white,- the margins 

 pale ferruginous ; thighs and vent like the neck ; wing coverts 

 cinereous brown, below them a dusky bar, followed by another of 

 very pale blue; quills dusky; tail reddish brown, the two middle 

 feathers dark ash-colour; legs pale blue. 



A drawing of this, from Mr. Abbot, of Georgia, had the name 

 of the female of the Black Duck. It has hitherto been supposed, 

 that this bird was found in America only ; but it is also known in 

 the north of Europe, being seen in the winter, on the coasts of the 

 Baltic, migrating in different seasons. 



49.— SCOTER DUCK. 



Anas nigra, Ind. Orn. ii. 848. Lin. i. 196. Faun. suec. No. 110. Gm. Lin. i. 508. 



Muller, No. 110. Bris. vi. 420. t. 38. f. 2.— male. Id. 8vo. ii. 471. Am. Orn. 



viii. 135 pi. 92. 2. Tern. Man. hbA. Id. Ed. 2d. 857. 

 Anas niger minor, Raii, 141. A. 5. Will. 280. t. 74. 



Die Trauerente, Bechst. Deuts. ii. 572. Id. Ed.ld. iv. 963. Naturf. xii. 133. 72. 

 Zwarte zee-end, Sepp, Vog. iv. t. p. 335. — male. 

 La Macreuse, Buf. ix. 234. pi. 16. PL enl. 978. 

 Whilk, Phil. Trans, xv. No. 175. p. 1100. 

 Scoter, Black Diver, Gen. Syn. vi. 480. Br. Zoo/, ii. No. 273. ld.fol. 153. Id. 



1812. ii. 248. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 484. Id. Sup. p. 76. Will. Engl. 366. 



pi. 74. Ray's Letters, p. 160, 161. Bewick, ii. pi. p. 324. Lewin, vii. pi. 249. 



Walcot,\. pi. 59. Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. Graves, vol. i.- 



THIS is somewhat less than the Velvet Duck ; length twenty- 

 two inches ; weight forty ounces. The bill is yellow above, edged 

 with black; beneath wholly black, with a knob at the base, as in 

 the Velvet Duck, which is red, and divided down the middle by a 

 yellow line ; eyelids yellow ; eyes black ; plumage wholly black ; 



