. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . ucks, measur-ing an inch and three-quarters in length, one and seven-eighths in breadth, of a uniform pale cream colour, tingedwith green, not pure white, as stated by some young, when about a week old, he found to be coveredwith * rather stifl and hair-like down, of a black colour,excepting under the chin, where there was a small p
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . ucks, measur-ing an inch and three-quarters in length, one and seven-eighths in breadth, of a uniform pale cream colour, tingedwith green, not pure white, as stated by some young, when about a week old, he found to be coveredwith * rather stifl and hair-like down, of a black colour,excepting under the chin, where there was a small patch of VELVET SCOTER. 139 white. The young males at this age had also a white spotunder the eye. Young.—When fledged, the young males, according toM. Temminck, are similar to the old females, but are distin-guished from them by the rose-red of the tarsi and toes, aswell as by the white spots before and behind the eyes, whichare smalUer. In Summer.—The colours are the same as in winter, theplumage becoming tinged with brown toward the end of theseason. That of the female also fades greatly. I have exa-mined specimens from the Firth of Forth as far in the seasonas the 5th of May. 140 OIDEMIA NIGRA. THE BLACK SCOTER. COMMON SCOTER. BLACK Fio. 69. Anas nigra. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 196. Anas nigra. Lath. InJ. Ornith. IL 848. Anas nigra. Temm. Man. dOrnith. IL 356. Oidemia nigra. Flem. Brit. Anim. Oidemia nigra. Selby, Illustr. Brit. Ornith. II. 239. Oidemia nigra. Jen. Brit. Vert. Anim. 239. Oidemia nigra. Bonap. Comp. List, 58. Male with the bill having a large protuberance at the baseabove, the rounded lateral prominences partially feathered ;both mandibles black, but the upper toith an orange-yellowptatch above, including the nostrils; feet dusky; plumageentirely black ; tail pointed, of sixteen feathers ; first quillvery narrow. Female with the bill dusky, its basal promi-nence less elevated ; plumage sooty-broivn, breast and abdomenpaler. BLACK SCOTER. 141 Male in Win
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