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Germany, and even in the Arctic regions 

 it loses no time, as eggs may be taken 

 a week after the ice has broken up and 

 before it has all marched down to the sea. 

 . . . The Teal seldom sits more than 

 three weeks ; but this species is said to 

 be so little shy that the drake takes part 

 in the care of the young until they have 

 feathers, when he leaves them in charge 

 of his mate whilst he retires to asume his 

 brown moulting-dress." 



I now quote some interesting notes 

 from Mr. Stevenson's "Birds of Norfolk." 

 " On the 1 3th May I saw a TeaPs nest at 

 Ranworth containing ten eggs, from which 

 the keeper had taken two pheasant's eggs ; 

 another nest, near the same place, which 

 was destroyed by rats, had also contained 

 two pheasant's eggs. Mr. Norgate saw a 

 Teal's nest on the iQth April on Santon 

 Warren, which contained eight teal's, one 

 duck's, and several pheasant's, eggs. The 

 old bird is very much attached to the 

 nest, especially when near hatching. Mr. 

 J. H. Gurney, jun., once found a nest at 

 Hempstead, on June i3th, containing ten 

 eggs, on which the old bird ' sat like a 

 stone ' till he almost trod on her ; and a 

 good many years ago, in Inverness-shire, 

 I actually removed a Teal from her nest 



