COMMON SCOTER. 



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NAT A TORES. 



ANATIDJE. 



THE COMMON SCOTER. 



Oidemia nigra. 



Anas nigra, The Scoter, 



Oidemia Slack Scoter, 



Anas 



Canard macreuse, 



PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 248. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



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



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 119. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 329. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 239. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 356. 



THE COMMON SCOTER is generally considered a winter 

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

 numbers on various parts of our coast, and in Ireland ; 

 they are, however, also to be seen in the summer on the 

 southern coast of England. 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 occasionally seen here and 

 there a straggling Scoter or two outside the rocks of the 



