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SUEF-SCOTER. 



(EDEMIA PERSPICILLATA {Linn.). 



Anas perspicillata, Linn. S. N. i. p. 201 (1766) ; Naum. xii. 



p. 140. 

 Oidemia perspicillata, Macg. v. p. 129. 

 CEclemia perspicillata, Yarr. ed. 4, iv. p. 481 ; Dresser, vi. 



p. 669. 



Macreuse a large bee, French ; Brillen-Ente, German. 



Of this irregular and uncommon North-American 

 visitor to our coasts, I know absolutely nothing from 

 personal observation, but, as many of my subscribers 

 ask me for notes to accompany my pictures, I trust 

 that my friend Mr. H. Saunders vrill pardon me for an 

 attempt to condense the information given by him in 

 the 4th ed. of ' Yarrell ' as follows : — The home of this 

 Duck is in the northern regions of America, its summer 

 range extending to the shores of the Arctic Sea. It 

 nests in Newfoundland and in the Province of Quebec, 

 has been met with in Greenland, and occurs in winter 

 as far to the southward as Lower California on the 

 Pacific, and Florida on the Atlantic coast of N. America. 

 Audubon mentions the enormous number of this species 



