. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. ANATID^. 469. THE SURF-SCOTER. CEdemia perspicillAta (LintiKus). The Surf-Scoter is a North American bird which has not infre- quently wandered in the cold season to our coasts—especially to the western side, where the influence of the Gulf Stream is felt. Since 1838, when its occurrence in British waters was first recorded by Blyth, two examples have been obtained near Weymouth, three in South Devon, one in Cornwall, two in the Scilly Islands, a young male off Lytham in Lancashire on December 9th 1882, an adult drake at Crofton in Cumberland, a
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. ANATID^. 469. THE SURF-SCOTER. CEdemia perspicillAta (LintiKus). The Surf-Scoter is a North American bird which has not infre- quently wandered in the cold season to our coasts—especially to the western side, where the influence of the Gulf Stream is felt. Since 1838, when its occurrence in British waters was first recorded by Blyth, two examples have been obtained near Weymouth, three in South Devon, one in Cornwall, two in the Scilly Islands, a young male off Lytham in Lancashire on December 9th 1882, an adult drake at Crofton in Cumberland, and a bird near Stornoway in the Hebrides during the winter of 1865. But its favourite haunts between autumn and spring appear to be in the Orkneys, where at least six specimens have been obtained during the last twenty years, while a far larger number have been identified by thoroughly competent observers. In the Shetlands it has not yet been procured, but Robert Dunn stated that he made unavailing attempts to get within shot of a male in Roeness Voe in June 1847. On the east side of Scotland, one was shot in the Firth of Forth in 1852, and Gould seems to have obtained one earlier. In Ireland several were seen on Belfast Lough during September 1846, one of them being now in the museum of that town ; a bird was obtained at Clontarf,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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