RARER BRITISH BIRDS. 
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Scoter, and forms by its position one of the principal distinctive 
marks of the genus Undina, a new genus instituted by Mr. 
Gould, and in which the above bird is placed. 
Edwards gives a figure of the Surf Duck, under the name of 
the Great Black Duck, and says, that he believes it had never 
before been described, but that he cannot say so with respect to 
its figuring, because he thinks he has discovered a draught of it 
in a small set of Dutch prints of birds, published at Amsterdam, 
by Nicola Visscher, anno 1659. 
