Birds within Ten Miles of Point 
d.e Monts, Can, Gome an & Merriain 
122. CEdemia perspicillata. Surf Duck. — Very common from April 
to November, but does not winter. The males greatly preponderate over 
the females in this species, and Mr. Comeau tells me that the proportion 
is always about seven males to one female. 
Bull, IT, 0.0, '7,Oot a 1882, p,240 
An Ornithologist’s Summer in Labrador 
M. Abbott Prazar. 
Oidemia perspicillata , Surf Scoter. Quite 
common; the most of any of the Scoters, and 
summering about Cape Whittle, under the same 
conditions as its two relatives. They follow 
their food wherever it goes, and w T ere rare or 
common accordingly. Once when the bait 
struck into Wolf Bay, the “Coots,” Ducks and 
Eiders were there in thousands, but it lasted for 
only three days and when their food struck out 
they vanished with them. 
O.&O. XII, Feb. 1887, p. 20 , 
-omas oihl.F. coast of Labrador 
by Henry B. Bigelow. 
Birds of Toronto, Ontario. 53 
By James H. Fleming. 
Pt.I, Water Birds. 
AuX, XXIII, Oct., 1906, p.44Q. 
53. Oidemia perspicillata. Surf Scoter.— Regular fall migrant, 
in October and November; the majority of the birds examined are imma- 
ture, but there is a full plumaged male in Mr. Maughan’s collection. 
