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saw some dark down projecting from the ground. 
In a moment. I2had dug out ‘six; more Scoters’ 
eggs. » There, was almost no nest, the eggs being 
laid simply in ‘a hollow, lined with alittle down, 
and over them the bird had scratched the earth: 
Thec eggs-are.thus' left’ till the set-is' completed; 
when incubation: begins. Just-as I got out again 
into the open I a 
saw my compan- 
jon; as he- bent 
over another 
clump, nearly 
knocked down 
as a Scoter sud- 
denly flew almost 
into ;his face. 
Flere’ was ) an- 
other typical nest 
with ten’ fresh 
C2 es. Rental tei; “A GREAT SCOTER SPRANG ALMOST INTO HIS FACE, 
till t] REVEALING A MAGNIFICENT SET OF FOURTEEN 
— amounes LARGE EGGS,” NEST OF WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, 
‘ UNTIL RECEN RDLY KNOWN TO SCIENCE 
clump was a hol- CENTLY HARDLY KNOWN 
low freshly scratched out, evidently by a Scoter, in 
preparation for her first egg. It is now known that 
the Scoter breeds very late, seldom finishing laying 
before July, and often well along in that month. | 
iA . hurried: trp: to; island - numbér one.’ -rey 
vealed, besides sixty Cormorants’ nests still with 
eggs, a few more nests of Ducks. Then we made 
for the. fourth and last island. I paid but passing 
heed» to ‘the _Baldpates, Gadwalls and Scaups’ that 
flew from their nests, or to a Pintail whose éight 
eggs were on the point of hatching. I wanted to 
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