COMMON SCOTER, 



BLACK SCOTER. WHILK. 



Anas nigra. PKNNANT. MONTAGU. 



" cinerascens, B ECKSTEIN. 



O'ulemia nigra, FLEMING. SELBY. 



Anas A Duck. Nigra Black. 



IN Europe the Scoter ranges in its geographical distribution 

 from Denmark, Lapland, Finland, and Russia, to Holland, 

 France, and Italy. 



In America, from the northern parts to the United States. 

 It occurs also in Asia, in Siberia, and Kamtschatka. 



It breeds in Iceland, but not in any great numbers. 



It is found along the shores, especially of rocky coasts, and 

 though compelled to leave these for a time, while engaged 

 with its nest and eggs, it even then keeps to the vicinity 

 of such, in the choice which it makes of a temporary home 

 in some adjacent lake, pond, or bog. 



This bird has been obtained in Yorkshire, near Doncaster, 

 in severe winters, also in the neighbourhood of York, Selby, 

 and Burlington, and on the moors about Huddersfield. In 

 July, 1834, a very large flock appeared on the waters in 

 Bretton Park, near Barnsley, and great numbers of them 

 were procured. A specimen was shot on a small stream quite 

 in the town of Louth, Lincolnshire, and at least a dozen 

 miles from the sea, in the year 1850, by the Rev. William 

 Marsden, as the Rev. R. P. Alington has told me. In Corn- 

 wall it has been obtained on the River Truro, and Carraek 

 road, and one was found dead on the beach at Flushing. In 

 Hampshire they have been seen near Christchurch, and about 

 the Isle of Wight. 



