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Surf Scoter was obtained near that place, in the winter of 

 1851, and a young male shot there in December 1853, 

 passed into Mr. Thompson's collection. Dr. Bullmore has 

 mentioned a mutilated specimen which was found, many 

 years ago, on the beach near Pendennis Castle, Cornwall. 

 Towards the end of September, 1865, an adult bird, picked 

 up in a dying state on the beach at St. Mary's, Scilly, was 

 brought to Mr. J. H. Jenldnson, and came under the inspec- 

 tion of the late Mr. Rodd, before it was skinned ; and on 

 the 28th of October, 1867, an immature example which had 

 been shot at Trescoe was sent for preservation to Mr. 

 Vingoe of Penzance. In Lancashire a female was shot by 

 Mr. R. H. Thompson on the 9th of December, 1882, 

 opposite Lytham, and identified by Mr. A. G. More (Zool. 

 1884, p. 29). One killed at Crofton, Cumberland, and 

 figured by Eyton, in his ' Rarer British Birds ' (p. 81), is 

 now in the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney. 



The late Robert Dunn stated (Zool. p. 2067) that in 

 June 1847 he saw an adult male several times in Rona's 

 Voe, Shetland, but he was unable to obtain it ; nor has the 

 species yet been recorded from that group of islands. In 

 the Orkneys, however, it seems to be of frequent — and per- 

 haps annual — occurrence, from autumn to spring, although 

 never in any great numbers. An adult male was shot at 

 Swanbister, in the parish of Ophir, in March 1866 ; one — 

 perhaps the same specimen — was in the collection of the late 

 Joseph H. Dunn ; and another, which was doubtless killed 

 in the Orkneys, is in the local museum at Stromness. Capt. 

 Clark-Kennedy has recorded, in ' The Field ' of March 11th, 

 1876, one obtained off Hoy Island in 1872, and another at 

 the entrance of Loch Stennis, Stromness. In the same 

 paper, under date of 18th March, 1876, Dr. Rae remarks: — 

 "In the latter part of September, or during October, I have 

 seen one or more in Orkney for the last ten years, in the 

 large bay which separates Kirkwall from Firth and Rendall." 

 In February 1875, Mr. T. M. Pike, when staying at Strom- 

 ness, got close to, and fired unsuccessfully at a Surf Scoter 

 which was swimming with three Velvet Scoters in the 



