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346. OmeEMIA FUSCA . : :
Vetvet Scorer.

A common winter bird in the Orkney and Shetland Islands ; solitary individuals have been killed on the

Thames and even further south.

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347. OWEMIA PERSPICILLATA

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Surr-Scorer.

Quite an accidental visitor from the coasts of North America ; has been killed about ten times in Britain.

Genus CLaNnGuLa.

The Golden-eye, Barrow’s Duck, and the Buffle-headed Duck are about the only members of this genus ;

like several of the preceding forms they seek their food at the bottom of the shallow parts of the seas, the

inlets of rivers, &c.

348. CLANGULA GLAUCION : ; 5 : : Vol. V. Pl. XXXL

GOLDEN-EYE.

A true winter visitant, said to have once found a breeding

-place on Loch Assynt in Sutherland. Breeds

in Lapland.

349. CLANGULA ALBEOLA.
Buffle-headed Duck.

This American bird having been killed four or five times in England, some have included it in our avifauna

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sts; and so do I, but withont figuring it.

Genus Hisrrionicus,

The fantastically marked Harlequin Duck is the type and only known species of this genus.
390. Histrionicus TORQUATUS i : : : Vol. V. Pl. XXXII.

Harrequin Duck.

A very rare visitant to Britain ; and when examples do occur, they are either females or young males of
the first year.

Genus Harezpa.

A northern form of a single species.

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