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The existence of a species of Black Scoter on the Japanese coasts 

 was recorded in 1840 (Temminck, Man. d'Orn. iv. p. 543), but pro- 

 bably in error, as no mention is made of it in the ' Fauna Japonica.' 

 Captain Blakiston was undoubtedly the first to discover that it was 



Head of Fuligula americana. f natural size. 



the Nearctic and not the Palsearctic species which occurs in Yezzo 

 (Blakiston and Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 215, no. 52), and was probably 

 the first discoverer of its occurrence in Japan. 



Head of Fuligula nigra. * natural size. 



The American Black Scoter breeds on the Kurile Islands (Blakiston 

 and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 100), and winters on the 

 shores of the Japanese Seas. Captain Blakiston and Mr. Henson 

 have sent examples from Hakodadi obtained in February and March 



