. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. Fig, 193. Female Black Scoter, with outline of bill viewed from below. ^i'^ grayish-white on the belly, there dusky-speclded, on the sides and flanks dusliy-wavcd ; throat and sides of head mostly continuous whitish ; bill all black; feet livid olivaceous, with black webs. $ nearly 2 feet long; wing about 10 inches : ? 18-19 inches ; wing 8-9 ;
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. Fig, 193. Female Black Scoter, with outline of bill viewed from below. ^i'^ grayish-white on the belly, there dusky-speclded, on the sides and flanks dusliy-wavcd ; throat and sides of head mostly continuous whitish ; bill all black; feet livid olivaceous, with black webs. $ nearly 2 feet long; wing about 10 inches : ? 18-19 inches ; wing 8-9 ; gape 2 ; culmen If. Differs from the European in the shape and coloration of the protuberance on the bill. Wils., viii, 135, pi. 72, f. 2; NuTT., ii, 422 and 423 ; Aud., vi, 343, pi. 403; Bd., 807. AMERICANA. Velvet Scoter. White-ivinged Surf- ducJc. 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 ( <J ) ; nail broad and truncate; gibbosity superior, circumscribed. (31elaneita.) $ black, with a large white wiug- patch, and another under the eye; feet orange-red, with dusky webs. Size of the last, or rather larger; 9 smaller, sooty-brown, pale grayish below, with much whitish about head, but showing white speculum; bill all black. Said to differ from the European by greater encroachment of feathers on bill, but the ascribed feature is not tangible. Wils., viii, 137, pi. 72, f. 3; NuTT, ii, 419 ; Aud., vi, 332, pi. 401; M. velvetina Bd., 805. Also, FuU- gula bimaculata Herbert, Field Sports, ii, 2d ed. 366 ; 0. himaculatci Bd., 808 (immature) fusca (var?) Surf Dicck. Sea Coot. Bill narrowly encroached upon by the frontal feathers, on the culmen nearly or quite to the nostrils, but not at all upon its sides, about as\ long as head, with the nail narrowed anteriorljs the swellius; lateral as well as superior; nostrils beyond its middle; bill of
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