EIDER DUCK.— COMMON SCOTER. 859 



Colonel Feilden states that he has taken one in the Shetlands, 

 placed in the midst of knee-deep heather, at least 500 feet 

 above sea-level. Mr. Knox (0. R. p. 245) says that an 

 immature bird was shot on November 1830, at Chichester 

 Harbour, and two, some years before, at Eye Marsh, associated 

 with a flock of Brent Geese. Mr. Jeflfery, in p. n., says that 

 a female was shot at Selsey, December 1858, and another 

 in December 1873, at Bosham ; also a young male, at the 

 same place, in December 1880. Mr. Booth, in 'Rough 

 Notes,' states that one or two immature females were shot 

 oif Rottingdean, in October 1882 ; that he secured two drakes, 

 out of eight immature birds, which were diving off" a stony 

 bank a short distance from the beach near Lanciug ; and that 

 he had frequently recognized Eiders off the coast of Sussex. 

 He refers to a flock of seven, which he saw on December 

 29th, 1883, somewhere off that coast. 



In the ' Zoologist ' for 1881 (p. 63) Mr. Herbert Langton, 

 of Brighton, states that an immature Eider was seen to settle 

 on some rocks, off Rottingdean, January 3rd of that year, 

 and after remaining all night, Mr. Guthrie, of that place, 

 after a long chase, succeeded in obtaining it ; it had been 

 previously wounded. 



COMMON SCOTER. 



(Edemia nigra. 



Tins Scoter is an abundant visitor to the Channel every 

 winter, and is exclusively marine in its habits, assembling in 

 flights of some hundreds, on the sandy or rocky shallovTs, 

 where they obtain, by diving, the bivalves, Crustacea, and small 

 fish on which they subsist. Flocks of various numbers may be 

 constantly seen fishing off Shoreham and Lancing, generally 



