SURF SCOTER. 



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NATATORES. 



AN AT I DIE. 



THE SURF SCOTER. 



Oidemia perspicillata, Surf Scoter, Flem. Brit. An. p. 119. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Selbv, Brit. Ornitli. vol. ii. p. 335. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit, Vert. p. 240. 



,, ,, „ ,, Eyton, Rare Brit. Birds, p. 81. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xiv. 



Anas ,, Canard marchand, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 853. 



According to the testimony of various authors, namely, 

 Dr. Fleming, Sir W. Jardine, Mr. Selby, and M. Tem- 

 minck, examples of this Duck have occurred on the Islands 

 of Orkney and Shetland ; Mr. Gould obtained a specimen 

 that was killed in the Frith of Forth, as noticed in his work 

 above quoted ; and Mr. Bartlett, of London, received a 

 recently shot Surf Scoter for preservation, as recorded in the 

 third volume of the Naturalist, page 420, from which bird 



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