ANAS NIGRA 



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Cenerig Character-, See Anas Cygnus, (ferus); 



Synonyms. * •• 



Anas Nigra. Lin.Syjl. up. 196. 7. 



Scoter or Black Diver. Br. Zool. 2. 273. lb. foL 

 253. Lath. Syn. 6. p. 480. 36. Mont. Orn. jDW* 

 Bewick's Br. Birds, Pt. 2. p. 288. 90. 



A H E length of this fpecies is about twenty-one inches, 

 the breadth two feet eight inches, and it weighs about 

 three pounds and a half : bill Ihort, broad, and flattened 

 at the tip, the bafe is furnifhed with a hard protuberance, 

 which projects nearly three-fourths of an inch in height, 

 it is divided in the centre by a deep furrow 5 edges of the 

 bill ferrated, the fides of the upper mandible are furrowed 

 near the edges, the furrow is irregular, and has much the 

 appearance of a feam clumfily fewed ; the bill is not furnifhed 

 with a nail at its extremity, as is common with moft of the 

 genus ; feet large and broad, and placed far behind ; the tail 

 confifts of fixteen fharp-pointed feathers, of which the two 

 middle ones are the longeft. Colour of the female dufky 

 black, intermixed with brown and grey, the bill is formed as 

 in the male, but the protuberance is not fo large, the colour 

 of this knob is fubjedl to vary j we have feen it quite red, and 

 in others green, but this may proceed from difference of age. 



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