WiLtp-Fow Lt or Witp-FowLt 
other islands. I had seen some of the birds and 
was prepared for what now took place. Up flut- 
tered a thick-set brown Duck, with white wing-bars, 
from the grass a 
couple of yards 
Up ibromi~ ithe 
Shione-te. lt? was 
unmistakably a 
Peau pi. and 1a 
large specimen 
Aearthiabe: on bnr a 
typical, well-con- 
cealed, down- 
lined nest were 
nine large, dark 
brown “es os. 
“IN A TYPICAL, WELL-CONCEALED, DOWN-LINED NEST 
WERE NINE LARGE DARK BROWN EGGS.”’ NEST OF 
Their size. meas- GREATER SCAUP, MAGDALEN ISLANDS. “ ACCORD- 
: y ING TO THE BQOKS, NONE OF THE SCAUPS HAD 
uring from two BEEN KNOWN TO BREED IN EASTERN NORTH 
AMERICA” 
and a half to two 
and six-tenths inches in length, made it sure that 
they belonged to the Greater Scaup. According to 
the books, none of the Scaups had been known to 
nest on the Atlantic coast. 
The fisherman affirmed that Teal of both kinds 
nested on the islands. For a time it seemed that 
all my arduous wading and tramping would fail to 
verify this. But on the afternoon of June 16, as I 
was wearily dragging my heavy boots along the 
edge of a slough, something suddenly went flap- 
ping over the grass, out from under a projecting 
spruce-bough that sprawled flat on the ground, on 
which I had almost trodden. It was a female Blue- 
winged Teal. I lifted the bough, and there were 
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