COMMON SCOTER. 



NATATORES. 



317 

 AN ATI DM. 



THE COMMON SCOTER. 



Anas nigra, The Scoter, 



Oidemia 



Anas 



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



MONTAGU, Omith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Bird8, vol. ii. p. 389. 



Black Scoter, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 119. 



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



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 239. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xv. 



Canard macreuse, TEMM. Man. d'Onrith. 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. 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 



