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Sound, near Rysa Little ; and exactly a year later he killed 

 at the same place, and in similar company, a fine adult male 

 (Zool. 1879, p. 335). The Eev. S. A. Walker informs the 

 Editor that on the 23rd October, 1880, he obtained an adult 

 male off the above-mentioned Rysa Little, the trachea of 

 which was described by Mr. Herbert Laugton (Zool. 1881, 

 p. 59). On the 20th of November, 1884, Mr. Walker saw, 

 but did not obtain, another male of this species, swimming 

 in the same waters in company with Velvet Scoters ; this 

 bird was very tame, but, owing to the wildness of its com- 

 panions, it could not be approached, although generally the 

 last to leave the water and the first to drop. In the 

 Hebrides a Surf Scoter was shot near Stornoway in the 

 winter of 1865, and passed into the collection of the late 

 Sir James Matheson. On the south-east coast of Scotland 

 one was killed in Musselburgh Bay, Firth of Forth, in 

 1852. 



In Ireland, according to Thompson, several were seen in the 

 early part of the autumn of 1846 in Belfast Bay, an adult 

 male being shot on the 9th of September, and presented 

 by Dr. Cupples to the Belfast Museum, where it now is. 

 Another is stated by Sir R. Payne-Gallwey to have been 

 shot in October 1880, at Clontarf, co. Dublin, by Mr. E. 

 Hanks, and was presented by him to Mr. Bradshaw, of the 

 Rectory. 



The Surf Scoter has been obtained once in the Faeroes ; 

 on several occasions in Swedish Lapland ; and at least three 

 times on Aland, at the junction of the Gulf of Bothnia and 

 the Baltic : two of the latter examples being in the Helsing- 

 fors museum. One, killed olf Heligoland on the 9th of 

 October, 1851, is in the collection of Mr. Giitke. Records 

 of the occurrence of this species in Germany, and on the 

 coast of Flanders, are of somewhat doubtful authenticity ; 

 but Degland and Gerbe mention one killed near Calais in 

 the winter of 1835 ; one obtained in the market of Caen in 

 1841 ; four or five sent up to Paris between 1845 and 1852 ; 

 and four or five in the winter of 18C4. In the tine collec- 

 tion of M. Marmottan, there are no less than six adult 



