ii6 A TRIP TO HABARIKI 



every year. The nest contained ten eggs and plenty of 

 down. 



We saw several goosanders, distinctly identifying one 

 pair on the water of the marsh behind Habariki. The 

 smew was rather a common duck ; we saw many pairs on 

 the pools, the large marsh, and the woodland tarns, and 

 secured a fine male. We were told that they breed in 

 low stumps of trees. 



We identified the black-throated diver for the first 

 time on the 2nd of June. We saw it several times and 

 heard it fiying overhead. 



We occasionally saw one or two common gulls and 

 one pair of Siberian herring-gulls. In addition to the 

 above-mentioned birds we frequently saw others that we 

 were unable fully to identify. Thus we often came upon 

 large sandpipers on the marsh whose cry was like that of 

 the redshank ; they were probably the dusky redshank. 

 We also sav/ a large fiock of ducks of a heavy species 

 flying overhead which we imagined to be the eider- 

 duck. 



In the woods and forests of Habariki we did not once 

 meet with the raven, the bullfinch, or the yellow-hammer, 

 or with any species of pipit or lark. 



