ATHYIA MARILA. 591 
Kautokeino Eno, i. e. the Kautokeino River just over the frontier 
where he was fishing. 
' (Three more of these were sold at Mr. Stevens’s, 23 February, 1858, to 
Messrs. Braikenridge (2) and Simpson. ] 
§ 5739. Zwo.—Lapland, 1858. 
Out of three from Nalima Petter in Kaaressuando. Brought 
3 August. 
[§ 5740. Three.—Iceland.. From Mr. Proctor, 1847-1856. | 
[§ 5741. One.—Yukon, June, 1861. From the Smithsonian 
Institution, through Professor Baird, 1863. 
From Mr. Kennicott’s spoils (cf. § 5743). Taken by Mr. James Lockhart. 
“ Parent 27787.” | 
[§ 5742. Four.—Hebrides, 11 June, 1906. From Mr. Norman 
B. Kinnear. 
Mr. Harvie-Brown having heard from a quarter on which he could 
thoroughly depend that the Scaup-Duck had been observed in former 
years at a.certain place in circumstances which left no doubt that it must be 
breeding there, kindly imparted the information to Mr. Norman B, Kinnear, 
who, furnished with proper authority from the proprietor, proceeded thither 
in company with Mr. Philip H. Bahr. Mr. Kinnear has been so good as to let 
" me print some extracts from the journal he kept while in the Hebrides, as 
follows :—‘‘9 June I cycled to Loch and waited there for Mr. Bahr, who 
came on later with the joyful news that he and the gamekeeper had found a 
Scaup’s nest with nine eggs. They noticed that a pair of Scaups kept 
hanging round the island, from which they were working the camera-string 
while photographing some Black-headed Gulls. On searching the island they 
found a Duck’s nest containing nine eggs; so, leaving it undisturbed, they 
rowed out into the loch and watched the Scaups from a distance. Presently 
both the birds disappeared behind the island ; and, after waiting some time, 
as the male only reappeared on the other side of the island, they concluded 
that the female must have landed and gone to the nest, which they had 
already found. They decided to leave the loch without again disturbing the 
bird, and to return on Monday.” 
It will be observed that Mr. Bahr did not put a bird off this nest, and 
naturally supposed that the pair of Scaup-Ducks which he saw on the water 
