548 ANAS ACUTA. 
ice—hence one of the local names of the bird’. As socn as the 
Ducks are hard sitting the Drakes go about in flocks, having 
apparently deserted their mates. 
(The above is from the same letter as that which contained the notes on the 
Wigeon before given (p. 531), written by Mr. Wolley at Muoniovara, 2 March, 
1855, to Mr. Hewitson, who made use of part of it in the third edition of his 
work. | 
§ 5572. One.—Myvatn, North Iceland, 1846. From Mr. 
Henry Milner, 1847. 
Mr. Milner says that this bird is not at all common in Iceland, 
where they met with only two nests. He afterwards wrote :— 
“T have no doubt in my own mind about the identity of the 
Pintail, as 1 saw the bird, and on the same island I got the Scaup, 
Long-tailed, Wigeon, Teal, and Sclavonian Grebe.” 
§ 5573. One.—Muonioniska, June, 1553. 
[Out of four which a woman brought on the 12th of June with other Ducks’ 
eggs for sale, these being called by a name which Mr. Wolley’s intepreter did 
not attempt to translate. What became of the other three I know not, and 
only keep this because it was the first Pintail’s egg he obtained in Lapland. ] 
§ 5574. Four.—Nedre-Muonioniska, 13 June, 1853. “J. W.” 
When we were in the wood standing talking for some time at the 
edge of a rather swampy slope about 9 o’clock p.m., a Duck fluttered 
up at twenty yards’ distance. Running up we found four eggs 
in down in a hollow of the moss, the top of the down being on 
a level with it. I could not see the bird well. About 12 o’clock I 
went again with Ludwig, intending to shoot the bird. It appeared 
and flew round several times, so that I had plenty of time to look at it. 
It was long in the neck, and might probably be Pintail, but I could 
not say. It turned its head down as it flew over the marsh. Next 
1 [This name is written in several ways by Mr. Wolley, not one of them, I 
believe, correctly. The proper form would seem to be Hanki-sorsa, the first word 
meaning the outer hard crust of snow, rendered in Swedish by skare; but I do 
not find the name recognized by any Finnish authorities, though Prof. W, 
Nylander is said (Palmén, ‘ Finlands Foglar,’ ii. p. 878) to cite it as given to 
A. boscas. The other and more general name, as also said and explained above, is 
Jouhi-sursa or suorsa, which last word signifies Duck.—ED. } 
