plumage mostly pitch-black, with yellowish-brown edgings;
breast and flanks yellowish-brown, spotted and barred with
black; belly the same colours intimately miked ; as in
the female.
The representation of the lower portion of the trachea here
given is of the natural size, and taken from a specimen.
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NATATOMEW ANATIDÆ.
T H E V E LV E T SCOTER.
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Oidèmia
Anas
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>* » Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 337...
Velvet Scoter, Flem. Brit. Am p. 119. '
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»>.'• j> Jenyns,-.Brit. Vert. p. ^39. .
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•lCanard tioMlà'micreuse', Temm. M an . d ’O rn ith . vol! ii. p. 8 5 4 .
Oidemia. Generic Characters.—A S ill swollen or tuberculated' at the base,
large, elevated, and strongnfu'cfrdepressed and flattened,,terminated
by a large flat nail, which has its exttsnji^oUnded and slightly deflected ;
mandibles laminated, with the plates broad, strong, and widely set. Nostrils
lateral, elevated, oval,* placed1 near the middle of the bill. Wings of mean
length, concave, acute. Tail short, graduated, acute. Legs far behind the