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and each containing eleven eggs, the full number; 

 they were placed among the long heather, of which, 

 together with some dry grass, they are outwardly 

 constructed, and lined, 2 inches thick, with the 

 softest down, kept together by having bits of heath 

 and the stalks of grass interwoven with it. One of 

 them is a very beautiful object, each separate piece 

 of the down with which it is lined being outwardly 

 of a dark brown with a pure white centre. Mr. W. 

 M. Tuke has found the eggs of the Teal on Strensall 

 Common, an extensive waste near York, and very 

 much like the one I have just described ; they were 

 placed, without any nest, under the shelter of a piece 

 of furze." 



The Garganey, or Summer Teal (Anas querquedula), 

 has been said to breed on the pools of the South of 

 England, but it is doubtful, though it has certainly 

 been often killed in the breeding season. It is a 

 fresh-water species. 



The Wigeon (Anas Penelope) was discovered by 

 Mr. Selby, breeding in Scotland, who wrote to Mr. 

 Hewitson as follows : " The nest from which the eggs 

 were taken was upon the island in Loch Laighal, upon 

 which is a large colony of the lesser Black-backed 

 Gull. It is covered with ferns and other long 

 herbage ; and the nest, well-concealed in a thick bed 

 of rushes, was composed of their decayed stems and 

 other grasses, with a large quantity of the bird's 

 down interwoven, the eggs being far advanced, and 

 the young nearly ready for extrusion. The female 

 we shot when she arose from the nest. Upon most of 

 the rocks were several pairs." 



