AMONG THE WaTER FowLr 
clumps of grass, weeds, or bushes, and found 
enough eggs of Gadwalls, Baldpates, Scaups, Sco- 
ters, Pintails, and Shovelers to have filled many 
pails, had we 
gathered them. 
lt w ais: snot 
surprising, with 
this 1t€emine 
bird-life, to find 
that the Ducks 
not infrequently 
laids 1m, eee 
others’ nests. I 
found a mixed 
set of ten Shov- 
elers’ eggs and 
*“ AND FOUND ENOUGH EGGS ... TO HAVE FILLED 
MANY PAILS, HAD WE GATHERED THEM.” NEST four of a Scaup 
OF LESSER SCAUP ; 
flushing the fe- 
male Shoveler from this aggregation. I also found 
Shovelers’ eggs in a Baldpates’ nest. 
On the summit of the island, under clumps of 
rose-bushes, Scoters seemed to hold sway. Under 
one clump we literally unearthed ten buried eggs. 
My companion looked into another near-by thicket, 
and a great Scoter sprang almost into his face, 
revealing a magnificent set of fourteen large eggs. 
At the western end of the island, on the highest 
ground, was a very large clump of rose-bushes, as 
high as one’s head, the others having been but a 
couple of feet in height. Near the top of one of 
these bushes was the nest of a common King- 
bird with three eggs. I crawled into this maze 
of briars and was about to leave when I thought I 
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