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223. SpatTuta cLyPEata (L.). 
Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 497. 
I shot one female on March 9. 
224. CLANGULA GLAUCION (L.). 
Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 497. 
I saw a small party of these Ducks on a pond on 
December 29, 1901, and shot a fine male in full plumage. 
225. MereGus aLBextus (L.). 
Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 498. 
Common in winter. 
226. Mrrcus MERGANSER L. 
Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 498. 
Very common in winter. 
227. PopicipES PHILIPPENSIS Bonn. 
Podicipes minor (Briss.); Styau, Ibis, 1891, p. 510. 
A very common resident species. Numbers breed in the 
ponds in the country from the end of May until far into 
July, and I obtained eggs from May 29 to July 13. The 
nests which I found were floating truncated pyramids of 
weeds. The full clutch consists of six or seven eggs. When 
quite fresh they are greenish white, but become creamy white 
after a short time, the colour deepening until at the moment 
of hatching it is of a dull brown. ‘The general shape of the 
eggs is biconical, one end being more pointed than the other ; 
a few are oval with both ends more or less pointed. Thirty- 
three eggs average 1:45 1:02’. They range in size from 
1:39x1" to 1541-03”. The diameter in some is only 
0:98", but in one case it is as much as 1:06”. 
One of four brown eggs, taken on June 23, hatched in my 
room the foliowing night, and the next day I found the 
young bird crawling about the floor. When put intoa basin 
of water it swam rapidly like a frog, but with the head and 
bill pointing downwards (probably through having sustained 
some injury), and when deposited on a table it crawled rapidly 
on allfours in the same way. The bill of this bird was pink, 
the iris was light chestnut, and the legs were plumbeous grey. 
