CHAPTER XXVI. 



THE SCOTERS THE POCHARDS THE GARROTS THE LONG-TAILED HARELD 

 THE GOOSANDERS. 



THE Velvet Scoter (Svarta, or Black Duck, Sw. ; Oidemia 

 fusca, Flem.) was somewhat rare in the vicinity of Ronnum, 

 but common spring and fall in the Skargard. During the 

 summer it is found, as well in the interior as on the coast, 

 throughout the more central and northern parts of Scandi- 

 navia, from the province of Blekinge to near the North Cape. 

 M. Malm describes it as common in all the lakes and rivers 

 of northern Lapland, and as amongst the last of the duck 

 tribe to depart from thence in the autumn. It is ice, he 

 says, and not cold, that causes it to wing its way to the 

 southward. In Denmark it is common during migration, 

 and some winter in that country. Though a northern bird it 

 is, singular enough, not found, Kjaerbolling tells us, in the 

 Danish Dependencies of Greenland and Iceland. Migrates. 



In shape the velvet scoter is awkward and thick-set, and 



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