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tions of vegetating caterpillars, and vegetating wasps, in 

 the plates numbered 335 and 336, published many years 

 since. 



In spring, the Scaup Ducks depart to countries north of 

 the Orkney and Shetland Islands to breed ; and I am only 

 acquainted with one record of their producing their young 

 in Scotland, which is that by Mr. Selby, in his notice of 

 the birds found when exploring Sutherlandshire in the 

 month of June 1834. " A single female was shot by Sir 

 William Jardine, in a small loch between Loch Hope and 

 Eriboll ; she was attended by a young one, which unfortu- 

 nately escaped among the reeds. This is the first instance 

 of its breeding in Britain having been ascertained that I am 

 aware of." 



Of this species in Scandinavia, Richard Dann, Esq., has 

 supplied me with the following note : " The Scaup Duck, 

 in its migration south, does not make its appearance on the 

 western coast of Europe until late in the winter, and then 

 only in comparatively small numbers ; its migration appears 

 to be more southerly than westerly. It breeds on the 

 swampy lakes towards the north of the Bothnian Gulph, 

 near Lulea, in considerable numbers. I have shot the 

 young there previously to their being able to fly. I 

 have seen them about Gellivara and Lulea in small 

 numbers. Being a diving-duck they avoid the reeds, and 

 keep out in the open water. They are, also, tolerably 

 numerous in the Dofre Fiell mountains, frequenting and 

 breeding near swampy solitary lakes as high as the birch- 

 wood grows. At whatever season the Scaup Duck is shot, 

 it is generally very fat and heavy. The eggs are five or 

 six in number. 



Mr. Procter sent me word that the Scaup Duck is a 

 very common species in Iceland, where it breeds either 



