DUCKS 463 



SURF SCOTER. (Edemia perspicillata (Linnaeus). 

 Length, 21 in.; bill, 1'5 in.; wing, 9-5 in.; tarsus, 

 1'5 in. 



Hah. Coasts of Nortli America ; accidental in Northern 

 Europe to Swedish Lapland. 



One, received in the flesh ''a few seasons ago" (1838) by 



Bartlett for preservation, locality not stated : Blyth in 



Wood's Naturalist, vol. iii. p. 420. 

 One, Belfast Bay, co. Down, Sept. 9, 1 84G : Thompson, 



" Birds of Ireland." vol. iii. p. 118 ; Warren, Irish Nat., 



1897, p. 59. In the Belfast Museum. 

 One seen, Rona's Voe, Shetland, June 1847: Dunn, Zool., 



1848, p. 2067; Gray, "Birds of West of Scotland," 



p. 383. 

 One near Weymouth, Dorset, winter 1851: Yarrell, op. cit.; 



Mansel Pleydell, "Birds of Dorset," p. 162. 

 One, Musselburgh Bay, Firth of Forth, spring of 1852 : 



Martin. Nat., 1853, p. 83; Yarrell, "Hist. Brit. Birds," 



3rd ed., vol. iii. p. 324; Turnbull, "Birds of East 



Lothian," p. 45. In the collection of W. F. Eyre, 



Christchurch, Hants. 

 One between Weymouth and Purton, Dec. 1853 : Thompson, 



Zool, 1854, p. 4255 ; Mansel Pleydell, p. 162. 

 One, Aberdeen coast, Nov, 1855 : Sir W. Jardine, MS. 



In the collection of the late Edward Hargitt. 

 One, Crofton, Cumberland, Aug. 1856: Eyton, "Rarer 



Brit. Birds," p. 81, fig. In the collection of Mr. J. H. 



Gurney. 

 One, Gristhorpe, near Scarborough, Oct. 25, 1860: Bell, 



Zool, 1860, p. 7274; 1861, p. 7385. Proved to be a 



mistake. 

 One, St. Mary's, Scilly, Sept. 1865 : Rodd, Zool, 1865, p. 



9794; "Bu-ds of Cornwall," p. 150. 

 One, Holm, near Stornoway, winter 1865 : Gray, "Birds of 



West of Scotland," p. 383. In the collection of Sir 



James Matheson. 



