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ANATIN^. FULIGULA. 
a black patchy the unguis greyish-yellow ; tarsi and toes orange-red, 
webs dusky ; plumage deep blacky glossed with blue ; a white patch 
on the top of the head, and another on the nape. Female with the 
bill greenish-black ; the plumage brownish-black, darker on the top 
of the head, back, wings, and tail. 
Male, 20, 882 . Female, 19, 8 I 4 I 
Abundant from Nova Scotia to Maryland during Winter, and re- 
moving southward to the mouth of the Mississippi in severe weather. 
Never seen in the interior. Breeds from Labrador northwards. 
Black or Surf Duck, Anas perspicillata. Wins. Amer. Om. v. viii. p. 49. 
Fuligula perspicillata, Bonap. Syn. p. 389. 
Oidemia perspicillata, Surf Duck, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 449. 
Black or Surf Duck, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 416. 
Surf Duck, Fuligula perspicillata, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 161. 
404. 9. Fuligula Americana, Swains. American Scoter 
Duck. 
Plate CCCCVIII. Male and Female. 
Bill a little shorter than the head, with an obtuse prominence at the 
base of the upper mandible ; tail graduated, acuminate, of sixteen 
pointed feathers ; first quill with the inner web extremely attenuated. 
Male with the bill black, the basal prominence rich orange ; feet 
brownish-black; the general colour of the plumage black, on the 
lower parts tinged with brown, the inner webs of the quills brownish- 
grey. Female with the bill brownish-black, and having scarcely any 
protuberance at the base ; the upper parts light sooty-brown, the lower 
light brownish-grey. 
This species difiers very little from Fuligula nigra, being nearly of 
the same size, proportions, and colours. The male differs from that 
of the other species in having the sides of the unguis narrowed, and 
the orange patch on the upper mandible less extended beyond the 
nostrils, and destitute of the median black line and lateral streak. 
Male, 19, 88 ^. Female, 17, 29^. 
In winter abundant in the Bays of Boston, New York, and Chesa- 
peake, and as far south as the mouth of the Mississippi. Never inland. 
Breeds from Labrador to the Arctic seas. 
Scoter Duck, Anas nigra. Wins. Amer. Orn. v. viii. p. 135. 
Fuligula nigra, Bonap. Syn. p. 390. 
Oidemia americana, Swains. American Scoter, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. 
V. ii. p. 450. 
American Scoter Duck, Fuligula americana, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 422. 
American Scoter Duck, Fuligula americana, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 117. 
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■^" * * * * Bill shorter than the head, with a basal protuberance above, 
the inner secondaries curved outwards. 
. 405. 10. Fuligula spectabilis, Linn. King Duck. 
Plate CCLXXVI. Male and Female. 
