. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. CEDEMIA AMERICANA : VELVET DUCK. 327 there dusky-speckled, on the sides and flanks dusky-waved; throat and sides of head mostly continuous whitish ; bill all black; feet livid olivaceous, with black webs. Male nearly 2 feet long; wing about 10 inches; female inches; wing, ; gape, ; culmen, Differs from the European in the shape and coloration of the protuberance on the Fig. 70. — Female Black Scoter, with Outline of Bill from b
. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. CEDEMIA AMERICANA : VELVET DUCK. 327 there dusky-speckled, on the sides and flanks dusky-waved; throat and sides of head mostly continuous whitish ; bill all black; feet livid olivaceous, with black webs. Male nearly 2 feet long; wing about 10 inches; female inches; wing, ; gape, ; culmen, Differs from the European in the shape and coloration of the protuberance on the Fig. 70. — Female Black Scoter, with Outline of Bill from below. A winter resident along the coast, not very common, but more so during the autumnal and vernal migrations. Like the rest of the genus it is a sea-duck, occurring inland only exceptionally or upon the larger bodies of water. VELVET DUCK: WHITE-WINGED SCOTER. CEdemia fusca (Z.) Srv. Chars. Bill broadly encroached upon by the frontal feathers, on the culmen nearly or quite to the nostrils, and on its sides to a less extent, shorter than head, black, broadly orange-tipped. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stearns, Winfrid Alden, 1852-; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. Boston, Lee and Shepard; New York, C. T. Dillingham
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