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Orkney and Shetland Islands to breed ; and I am only ac- 

 quainted with one record of their producing their young in 

 Scotland, which is that by Mr. Selby, in his notice of the 

 birds found when exploring Sutherlandshire in the month of 

 June 1834, " A single female was shot by Sir William 

 Jardine, in a small loch between Loch Hope and Eriboll ; 

 she was attended by a young one, which unfortunately es- 

 caped among the reeds. This is the first instance of its 

 breeding in Britain having been ascertained that I am aware 

 of." 



Of this species in Scandinavia, Richard Dann, Esq. has 

 supplied me with the following note : — " The Scaup Duck, 

 in its migration south, does not make its appearance on the 

 western coast of Europe until late in the winter, and then 

 only in comparatively small numbers ; its migration appears 

 to be more southerly than westerly. It breeds on the 

 swampy lakes towards the north of the Bothnian Gulph, near 

 Lulea, in considerable numbers. I have shot the young 

 there previously to their being able to fly. I have seen them 

 about Gellivara and Lulea in small numbers. Being a diving- 

 duck they avoid the reeds, and keep out in the open water. 

 They are, also, tolerably numerous in the Dofre Fiell moun- 

 tains, frequenting and breeding near swampy solitary lakes 

 as high as the birchwood grows. At whatever season the 

 Scaup Duck is shot, it is generally very fat and heavy. The 

 eggs are five or six in number. 



Mr. Procter sent me word that the Scaup Duck is a very 

 common species in Iceland, where it breeds either among the 

 aquatic herbage, or the large stones, near the edge of fresh 

 water, making little or no nest, but a quantity of down cover- 

 ing the eggs, which are from five to eight in number : an egg 

 brought from Iceland by Mr. Procter, and figured in Mr. 

 Hewitson's work, is of a uniform clay brown colour, two 



