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AMTHYIA FULIGULA. 519 bP 
previously said that the bird was Sortti. This nest was just at the 
point of the jslet in the midst of a clump of meadow-sweet [| Spirea 
wlmaria| which quite concealed it, made principally of grass heaped 
high round, but not in a mass—as yet only a little down in it. 
§ 5749. Nine.—Toras Sieppi, June, 1854. 
Out of ten brought at Midsummer by the lad Johan [9 5746]. 
It is seldom that the great Sortti (Scaup-Duck) breeds just about 
here. 
§ 5750. Zwo.—Kangosjarvi, 26 June, 1854. 
By Piko Heiki, who knows the bird and its habits well, and 
doubtless these are Tufted Duck’s, for he found them himself. 
Several of them looked so blue that I laid them beside a number of 
Goldeneyes’ for comparison. The difference in colour was very 
marked. I had thought it possible that a Goldeneye might have 
laid in a Tufted Duck’s nest; but I have not a shadow of doubt 
about any of them. When dry and therefore faded the difference 
may be less perceptible. 
At Mr. Stevens’s, 26 January, 1855, five of them to Messrs. 
Burney (2), Gurney (2), and Walter. 
§ 5751. Three. 
§ 5752. Siz. Muonioniska, 27 June, 1854. 
§ 5753. Stix. 
From three nests taken the same evening. Two had been found 
previously by Piko Heiki. In the first there were three cold eggs, 
and he had no doubt the bird had been shot. The eggs of the 
second were well covered with down. From the third the bird flew as 
we passed by in the boat, and I saw it was a Tufted Duck. As I came 
back I saw the pair fly near the nest, and many others of the birds 
on the lakes (Jompalo) and in Jerisjoki. All the nests were on little 
banks, just above the water, among grass or shrubs. A day or two 
afterwards, Ludwig went to the third nest, but the bird was not 
caught in the snare we had left. Down pale black with a lighter 
centre ; a few small white feathers mixed with it. 
