Birds of the Adirondack Region. 
C.H.Merriaxa. ' 
165. Pelionetta perspicillata (Linn.) Kaup. Surf Duck; Skunk- 
head.— O ccurs with the preceding, but not so common. 
Bull, N. 0 , 0 , Q.Qct, 1881, p, 235 
2. Oidema perspicillata. — During a week’s stay at Montauk Point, 
from July 15 to July 21, 1883, I saw on several occasions a flock of ‘Sea 
Coots’ floating on the ocean about 250 or 300 yards from shore. To 
which of the three species they belonged I could not tell. On June 12, 
1884, I saw a flock of at least fifty ‘Sea Coots’ in the Lower New York 
Bay, off Coney Island, but the distance was too great to determine the 
species; but on the 20th of the same month, while sailing in Gravesend 
Bay, about two miles below Fort Hamilton, we came upon three individ- 
uals of O. jbersficillata. We ran down to within 20 yards of them be- 
fore they took wing, but as the gun had been left at home, in deference 
to the ladies, I was unable to secure them. 
Auk ' 8, April, 1880, p. JL&t . 
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