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Scaup Ducks were more abundant there than any other bird ; 
next to them the commonest duck was the Long-tail. We heard 
their beautiful bugle call all night and all day long. 
White Wagtails here perched on the bushes like Whinchats, 
or perhaps like Ray’s Wagtail at home. 
Sclavonian Grebes were very abundant, and very tame. It is 
amusing to watch one of these birds swimming under water, as 
they do when leaving the nest. Their legs, being practically 
terminal instead of lateral members, give them, under water, 
somewhat the appearance of large frogs. We took a good 
number of their eggs, the reason being that there had been a 
storm of wind recently, and the waves had agitated the floating 
nests (made of a kind of Myriophyllum, and moored to the reeds) 
to such an extent as to upset many of the eggs into the water, 
and there they lay at the bottom. We retrieved all we could 
find ; but the endosmosis having been the more vigorous action 
of the two, many were split. 
Falcons and Ravens seemed to be pretty common. Besides 
seeing both individually, we observed numerous traces of their 
handiwork in the shape of remains of ducks and sucked egg- 
shells. Some of the ducks seemed to have been killed for 
amusement and practice; their heads were struck clean off, but 
no further notice taken of them. 
We heard both Great Northern and Red-throated Divers 
about, and obtained eggs of each. 
The next time we went out, over fresh ground, we began to 
keep a methodical account of all the nests we found with eggs. 
But after a short time we judged we had had enough of it. It 
seems almost a work of fiction, but here is the list as far as we 
got:—Scaup Duck, 305; Long-tail, 12; Scoter, 3; Wild Duck, 
3; Merganser, 8; Wigeon,2; Barrow’s Goldeneye, 4; Sclavonian 
Grebe, 4; Phalarope, 13; Snipe, 1; White Wagtail, 1; Titlark, 
1; Arctic Tern, 1. 
The next day, on a small islet by the lake side, about fifteen 
yards square, we found twenty-one Arctic Terns’ nests with eggs 
or young, ten Scaup with eggs, four Phalarope, five Grebe. The 
Arctic Terns haunted, or hunted, the hill sides near here, close 
to the ground. We did not shoot any, but we believed they were 
picking up spiders, which were plentiful. 
The next morning, July 15th, we went to inspect a Barrow’s 
