212 BRITISH BIRDS. 



Ducks. For this purpose we had the owner's kind 

 permission, and the assistance of his keepers. 



On June 4th we discovered a soHtary old male Scaup 





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Fig. 1. — Nest of Scaup-Duck. June 11 

 P. H. Bahr.) 



1906. (Photographed by 



riding asleep on a pecuharly desolate and unpromising- 

 looking loch. He was accompanied by a soHtary Tufted 

 drake, and when seen from a distance, even with the aid 

 of glasses, they seemed, when asleep with head tucked 



