AMONG THE WaTER Fow Lt 
Terns’ and—Ducks, breed... At our-cirstanrivaleiye 
visited them, and were disappointed not to find any 
Ducks’ nests, although there were scores of Ducks 
of several kinds, mostly Red-breasted Mergansers, 
feeding or flying about. We made the trip again 
on the 29th of June. An easterly storm was raging, 
and we droves even or eight miles over beach, dunes, 
and.-barrens, in an old cart drawn by an ancient 
white horse. Even in the thickest of winter cloth- 
ing and overcoats we were shivering. Reaching 
our destination, -we tied “thet horse ‘to a" clumpa@s 
stunted spruces and waded out to the ‘‘ Nubbles.”’ 
We had almost 
reached the first 
when a Dusky or 
Black’? Phils 
flushed from the 
grass up from the 
edge, leaving a 
pretty; downy 
nest with eight 
fresh eggs that 
THE EDGE, LEAVING A PRETTY DOWNY NEST WITH C l OSe ly resem- 
EIGHT FRESH EGGS” bled the eggs of 
the Mallard. I was surprised to find fresh eggs of 
this Duck so late, .as, from our first arrival, we had 
seen broods of young in the ponds, some of them 
several weeks old. A few feet away, under a little 
bush, a Merganser had scratched out a hollow, as 
yet unlined, and had laid the first egg of her litter. 
Then we waded across to the next islet, and here 
found what I had hoped for. The fishermen all said 
that ‘* Bluebills,’’ or Scaups, nested on these and 
“A DUSKY DUCK FLUSHED FROM THE GRASS UP FROM 
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