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on the river Suir, near the town of Thurles, county Tipperary, 
more than forty miles in a direct line from the sea. The 
other, sent from Wexford, may be presumed to have been killed 
in the harbour there, where the species is not unfrequent.* 
Scoters have been killed near Tramore, in the county of Water- 
ford, and they are not uncommon — immature birds particularly 
- — in Cork harbour. t In Kerry, scoters frequent the mouth 
of Tralee Bay, about the Maharee Islands, in small flocks during 
the winter : seven birds killed at one shot there a few years ago, 
came under the notice of Mr. R. Chute. When visiting the 
island of Achil, in 1834, I learned from Lieutenant Reynolds, 
R.N., that he had shot scoters there. 
Mr. Yarrell correctly remarks, that “the scoter is not very 
often found on fresh- water, inland, during winter,” and gives one 
instance of its so occurring, in the first edition of his work, and 
two instances in the second edition. Of the Irish localities just 
mentioned, where this bird has been obtained, several are inland. 
An interesting note appeared in the ‘ Zoologist 9 for 1848, to 
the effect that in the first week of July that year, fourteen scoters 
appeared opposite Wray Castle, on Windermere, which is visited 
by the species every year about that period. They never remain 
more than one or two days. Two of the fourteen birds were killed. 
On the previous 23rd of May, a male velvet scoter was shot there, 
and a female was seen about the same time.J In like manner both 
species are sometimes observed about the Lake of Geneva, on their 
migratory route ; the latter being noticed as of accidental passage 
in April, and single individuals of the common scoter as being seen 
in May. || 
Mr. Selby says, and no doubt from personal observation, that 
the scoter frequents shores particularly of a rocky character. 
In Ireland, however, it has chiefly been met with in sandy bays, 
as at D undrum, Lurgan Green, Drogheda Bay, localities on the 
Dublin coast, &c. 
* Mr. Poole. ’ t Dr. Harvey. 
% Thomas Gough. Kendal, vol. vi. p. 2230. 
|| Necker’s Memoir on the Birds of Geneva. 
