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slate colour, through which was visible a red vascular network, so that 

 the general effect was that of a pinky-slate. 



A Samoyed afterwards showed me the skins of seven adult Bewick 

 swans. We saw nothing of the whooper. 



Mareca penelope (linn.). Wigeon. 

 S wet sun (R.). Harlgar (S.). 



I can only record a single pair of wigeon. These I saw on a small 

 pool near the Sauchika entry on June 17. 



Fuligula cristata (leach). Tufted Duck. 

 Tschernett (R.). 



On August 1 1 we had a female tufted duck on a little lake before our 

 Pesanka camp. She always kept to the middle, just out of shot. 

 Twice when I was collecting insects at the edge of this lake she came 

 flying close past me on her way to a second pool. Her identity is 

 beyond all doubt. 



F. marila (linn.). Scaup. 



Goloubaia, Tschernett, Beloglaska (R.). Harocerl (S.). 



On June 1 6 we saw a pair of scaup on one of the Bewick Lakes ; 

 and on July 8 I saw another pair on a lake in the lower Pesanka 

 district. 



Harelda glacialis (linn.). Long-tailed Duck. 

 Vostrohwostka (R.). A-bo (S.). 



Out of the numerous gatherings of these ducks we saw but a single 

 drake in full spring plumage. This was on the sea on June 15. But 

 though the drakes had lost their white heads and white scapulars they 

 retained their central tail feathers. These were not moulted out till 

 the first week in June, and on July 8 my note runs : ' One scarcely sees 

 a single male now with a long tail.' Again, July 22: 'Saw several 

 harelda; only one drake with a long tail.' 



This duck far outnumbered any other species on Kolguev. The 

 first nest I found was in the interior of the islands on June 27. No 



