LAST WEEK IN JUNE rds 
The birds have been mentioned in Part II, 
p. 19-21. 
LAST. .WEEK. IN, JUNE 
I did not think to find many more nests 
this season, but I came across another one of 
the wigeon, close to Swan Island (see Part I, 
p. 181) on the mainland. The grass was now 
_ ready for the scythe and one of the mowers 
flushed the hen on the eggs as he got up to it 
in his work. He did not, countryman like, 
take any notice of the bird, but continued 
mowing, when suddenly the point of his 
scythe passed through the nest, but fortun- 
ately only disturbing a small portion of it ; 
and equally fortunately breaking only one 
egg—there were ten altogether. He told me 
it was ‘just turned,’ so that the bird had_ 
not been sitting long. The eggs were not at 
all soiled, bearing out his statement. When 
I arrived on the scene I found all the grass cut 
and lying about in heaps, as is usual after 
the first turning. The man had a tender 
heart, and had fixed up a dead branch close 
