PLATE I 

 TEAL. Querquedula crecca 



May 6tk, 1893. Walking along the shore of a small loch in South Perthshire 

 I put up a Teal, almost stepping on her, so closely did she sit. Having 

 left the nest in such a hurry she had not covered the eggs, and it was such 

 a pretty nest that I took a photo of it, though the wind was rather strong, 

 and blew the heather about a good deal. 



The keeper showed me two other nests not far off; but the birds were 

 away feeding, and had covered up the eggs with the down, to save them from 

 the crows, leaving nothing visible but a little patch of down among the long 

 heather which grew close down to the loch. 



