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NATATORES. AS ATI DM. 



PLATE CCLIV. 



BLACK SCOTER. 



OIDEMIA NIGRA. 



The Black Scoter is a winter visitant in Great Britain, and 

 principally found on our rocky shores ; its geographical dis- 

 tribution extends over the northern parts of Europe, Asia, 

 and America ; it passes the summer months in high northern 

 latitudes, where it breeds, and migrates southward, to evade 

 the inclement season of the north, as far as the United 

 States in America, the central parts of Siberia in Asia, 

 and in Europe, to our shores, as well as those of the Baltic, 

 Holland and France. 



The numbers that visit the before-named European shores 

 are so great, particularly during a continuous north-west 

 wind, that they appear in clouds, and cover the surface of the 

 water, literally, to a great extent. 



The adult males leave the breeding places about the end 

 of July ; the young birds migrate in August, and the greater 



