Unknown species of scoter, possibly common scoter, Melanitta nigra, or velvet scoter, Melanitta fusca (vulnerable). De Avibus, de Anate fera fusca vel media. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Lucas Schan and Conrad Gessner from Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, De avium natura, (Natural history of animals: birds), Frankfurt, Wechel for Cambier, 1585.

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