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in western Siberia. It is common on the lakes in Scandinavia 

 and north Russia, and said to breed as far south as Podolia. 

 In winter it visits the coasts of western Europe, the Medi- 

 terranean, Black and Caspian seas, and is occasionally met 

 with off Algeria and in Tunisia. It is an accidental visitor 

 to the Faeroes, and has been recorded from Greenland. 

 In North America it is represented by an allied form, 

 CE. deglandi, and in eastern Siberia, China, and Japan by 

 €E. carho. 



(Edemia perspicillata. Suef-Scotee. 



Anas perspicillata Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 125 : 

 Hudson Bay. 



QCdemia persijicillata (Linn.) ; B. O. TJ. List, 1st ed. 1883, 

 p. 136 ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. 1895, p. 412 ; 

 Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 469. 



Pe»'splci[late= dappled, covered with small looking-glassea {specula) — a 

 late and rather unnatural derivative. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — An Occasional Visitor 

 during the colder months of the year, most frequent in the 

 Orkney Islands, where a number have been observed from 

 time to time, and six obtained. Most of the other records 

 are from Ireland and from the western and southern shores 

 of Great Britain, but one example at lenst has been got in 

 the Firth of Forth. 



General Distribution. — The Surf-Scoter inhabits North 

 America, ranging in summer from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 

 and from about 70° N. latitude south to about 48° N. In 

 winter it visits the Great Lakes and wanders south to Lower 

 California and Florida, and is occasionally met with in some 

 of the inland States, the Bermudas, and Jamaica. It is also 

 believed to breed on the shores of Bering sea, and is a 

 straggler to north-east Siberia and Greenland. It is 

 occasionally met with in western Europe, from Scandinavia, 

 Finland, and Lapland, .is far south a^ the north coast of 

 France. 



