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hele are placed on the trees growing on the banks of streams or lakes fre- 
quented by them, their eggs are sure to be deposited therein, to the great 
profit of those who suspend theboxes. Of course when it is known that a Duck 
hatches its young in a hole in a tree, the question must suggest itself—as it 
did to the original observer in the case of the Wild Ducks’ nest ou a pollard, 
or in a Fir-tree—How can the young Ducks ever be got down safely, and still 
more, finally launched on their proper element? An observed habit of the 
Golden Eye answers this question. A Lap clergyman saw the parent bird 
conveying its young, to the number of five or more, but one at a time, from 
the nest to the water, and he was at last able to “make out that the young 
bird was held under the bill, but supported by the neck of the parent.” The 
eges of the Golden Hye are said to be ten or twelve or even more in number, 
and of a brighter colour than is usual with the eggs of the Duck tribe, being 
of a rather decided green colour. 
267. SMEW. 
But little that is quite authentic seems to be known of the nesting habits 
of this little Duck; nor is it certainly ascertained where its chief numbers 
retire to breed. The eggs are said to be eight or tem in number, or even 
more than that, and to be of a yellowish white colour. 
276. GREAT NORTHERN DIVER. 
This bird breeds on the Faroe Islands, and on some of the lakes in Ice- 
land; as also on some of the islands of Finmark, Spitzbergen and Greenland 
are also named as the breeding resort of many of these Divers. They lay, it 
is supposed, two eggs each, though in some observed instances only one was 
to be seen, Mr. Audubon says that three are sometimes laid. They are of 
a dark olive-brown, with a few spots of dark umber brown, and are of con- 
siderable size 
283. LITTLE AUK. 
This little wave-dweller has its nesting home in countries far more to the 
North than ours. It abounds onsome parts of the Greenland shores, and it 
isalso met with but much more sparingly, in Iceland. It makes no nest, 
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