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ANAS FUSCA. 
VELVET DUCK. 
Blackish; lower eye-lid and spot on the 
wings white. 
Anas Fusca, Linn. Gme. 
La Double Macreuse Buffon. 
Velvet Duck, Pen. Lath. Mont. Bew. 
PROVINCIAL. 
DOUBLE SCOTER, OR GREAT 
BLACK DUCK. 
The portrait accompanying this article, 
was taken from a beautiful specimen in the 
possession of T. B. Beevor, Esq. it agrees 
in every particular with the description giv- 
en by Bewick, but Temminck says that 
the old male birds have the irides, legs, 
and toes red, and the webs black. 
The Velvet Duck measures from twen- 
ty, to twenty two inches in length, and & 
in size rather larger than a Mallard. . ' 
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