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-^x galericulata (Linn.). 



A common resident. We have not obtained its eggs. 



Anas zonorhyncha Swinhoe. 



Also a common resident. Rickett has the skins of two 

 young in down. La Touche took nests and eggs at Swatow 

 ('Ibis/ 1892, p. 491). 



PoDICIPES PHILIPPENSIS (Steph.). 



A common resident. About the end of July Rickett's 

 collector shot two young in down near Foochow. He said 

 that there were three swimming about with the old bird in 

 a large pond. 



III. — On the Birds of the Upper Muonio River. By S. A. 

 Davies, M.B.O.U., Lieut. East Lancashire Regiment. 



In April, 1904, I made a three months' expedition to the 

 upper waters of the River Muonio, which are locally known 

 as the Kongama, where I was joined three weeks later by 

 Mr. John Stares. 



The Muonio rises in 69° 10' N. lat. and enters the Gulf 

 of Bothnia in 65° 50' N. lat., forming the boundary between 

 Sweden and Finland, but we contented ourselves with 

 working the Kongama between 69° and 68° 30' N. lat., 

 the latter being the northernmost limit of the pine-forests. 

 I had previously visited the district in 1895, when I was too 

 late for the best of the breeding- season, though I was 

 successful in obtaining eggs of the Jack-Snipe ; and in the 

 following year the late Daniel Meinertzhagen spent a season 

 there on my advice, making his headquarters at Muonioniska, 

 which was the centre of operations of John Wolley. The 

 difficulty of getting about at such a season of the year in a 

 country where there are practically no means of communi- 

 cation necessarily confined our operations to a somewhat 

 limited area, and we therefore chose the upper waters, where 

 we thought that we should have the best chance of Ducks, 

 Waders, and mountain-birds, although in so doing we 



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