432 Mr. E. Adams on the Birds of Michalaski. 



wards a considerable nuin))er were always to be met with 

 about the inland marshes. They seem to live very much 

 upon insects, which they capture upon the water and about 

 the rushes. 



The small inland lakes were their principal places of resort ; 

 and their nests were generally upon the grassy banks. The 

 eggs are small, much elongated, and slightly larger at one 

 end. Their colour is very pale sea-greeu. 



Shoveller. Anas clypeata. 



Yu-gdk-puk, Eski. 



[Spatula clypeata, Ball & Bann. p. 297.] 



I only met with a single pair of Shovellers ; and none were 

 killed by the Russians. The natives confounded it with the 

 Mallard ; and nobody knows any thing of it ; so that it is pro- 

 bably very rare. It is the only bird with which I found the 

 natives unacquainted. 



American Scaup. Fuligula mariloides. 

 [Probably Fulix affinis of Ball & Bannister's paper (p. 298.)] 

 The first of these birds I shot on the 12th of May. They 

 were not numerous ; nor did I ever observe them about the 

 lakes. When about the marshes shooting I sometimes met 

 with one or two flying about ; but all were males. Four spe- 

 cimens which I procured agreed in being much darker on 

 the back than Fuligula marila ; and instead of pure white the 

 belly was of a dirty greyish colour. In size they agreed with 

 the measurements given in the ' Fauna Boreali-Americana,' 

 except that they were longer in the tarsus. 



American Scoter. (Edemia aniericana (Swains.). 



Too-tdr-lik, Eski. 



[(Edemia americana, Dall & Bann. p. 300.] 



These birds were rather late in their arrival ; I met with 

 none until the 19th of May. Towards the end of the month 

 several pairs had taken possession of the larger lakes near 

 Michalaski ; here they remained to breed, seldom going out 

 to sea, but keeping together in small flocks in the middle of 

 the lake. Their nests were well secreted in the clefts and 

 hollows about the steep banks of the lakes, close to the water ; 



