220 



ANATTDE. 



NATATOBJIS. 



ANATID/E. 



THE COMMON SCOTER. 



Anas nigra. The Scoter, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 248. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Mont. Oinith. Diet. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 389. 



(^idciiiia ,, Black Scoter, Flem. Brit. An. p. 119. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Sei.ey, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 329. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 239. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xv. 



Anas ,, Canard macreuse, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 356. 



The Common Scoter is generally considered a winter 

 visiter only, and during that season is to be seen in great 

 numbers on various parts of our coast. Tlicy are, however, 

 also to be seen in the summer on the southern coast of Enff- 

 land. Richard. Dann, Esq. told me he saw flocks in the sea 

 off Dungeness, in the middle of June 1841, and other flocks 

 have been seen on the coast of Dorsetshire. I have occa- 

 sionally seen here and there a straggling Scoter or two out- 

 side the rocks of the Isle of Wight, and in Christchurch Bay 

 in June and July. It is not improbable that these were 



