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N ATA TORES. 



ANATID^E. 



A NAT ID JE- 



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THE SURF SCOTER. 



Oidemia perspicillata. 



Oidemia perspicittata, Surf Scoter , FLEM. Brit. An. p. 119. 



,. SELBY, Brit. Ornith. 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 



