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 NATATORES. 



ANATHm 



ANATID& 





THE SURF SCOTER. 



Oidemia perspicillata. 



Oidemia perspicillata, Surf Scoter, 



Anas 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 119. 

 SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. 



p. 335. 



JENYNS, Brit. Yert. p. 240. 



EYTON, Karer Brit. Birds, p. 81. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



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; Dr. J. A. Smith has recorded one 



