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they were built of coarse grass, and well lined with feathers 

 and down. They had not laid when I last examined the 

 nests. 



Long-tailed Duck. Harelda glacialis. 



Ad-le-guk-lu-luk, Eski. 



[^Harelda glacialis, Dall & Bann. p. 298.] 



First appeared on the 7th of May, when scarcely any of 

 them had completed their spring moult — white feathers about 

 the head and scapulars yet remaining. They were by no 

 means numerous, and generally only in pairs. They bred 

 about the inland marshes. The nest is like that of other 

 Sea-Ducks. The eggs, six to nine in number, were very 

 long, measuring 2 in. 3 lin. by 1 in. 5 lin. Colour rather 

 dark olive-green. One of my specimens had the red patch 

 remaining on the bill. 



Blue-eyed Duck. 



Ong-6o, Eski. 



{Lampronetta fisclieri, Brandt ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 212, 

 pi. 108 ; Dall & Bann. p. 299.] 



Three young birds (which I have called as above, for the 

 sake of distinction) were shot out of a flock on the 28th of 

 May. One only was a male, immature, and too much shat- 

 tered by the shot to be worth preserving, as I expected to 

 get more ; however, I saved the head and neck. The whole 

 plumage was of rather a light-brown colour, with white streaks 

 beginning to appear on the scapulars, which were long, but 

 only slightly curved ; the feathers on the occiput and nape 

 elongated, and those around the eye radiating from it, and 

 apparently assuming a greyish metallic colour; quills and 

 tail-feathers dark greyish brown ; bill wine-yellow, shading 

 into horn-colour at the tip, nail horn-colour ; legs and toes 

 dirty yellow ; webs dusky, resembling those of the King Eider 

 {Somateria spectabilis) ; bill broad and depressed, pitted near 

 the nail, compressed just before the edge of the bill joins the 

 nail, nail of moderate size ; frontal feathers encroaching upon 

 the bill as far as the front of the nostrils, and ending in a 



