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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Fig. 7. Tengmalm's Owl in its Native Haunts. 



view we can look seaward toward Spitzbergen, and directly in the 

 direction of the North Pole. The auk is seen standing on the rocks in 

 the middle distance; and also further to the left there is a gull. 



Some charming photographs of wild ducks have been taken down 

 at Bratva?r, where the celebrated fisheries for torsk and herring are. 

 There occur the famous eider ducks (Somcteria mollmma), which 

 yield the precious eiderdown, so extensively used as a lining for fashion- 

 able winter garments. These ducks heavily line their nests with this 

 down, and its collecting is an industry of no little commercial im- 

 portance. We also have several species of eider ducks in our own 



