that passed the shores of Labrador on the northward 

 migration, and this report has been very recently con- 

 firmed to me verbally from the personal experience of 

 Mr. H. E. Dresser. Audubon found a nest of this Duck 

 upon a vast freshwater marsh in Labrador, and describes 

 it as being entirely composed of withered and rotten 

 weeds, the former being circularly arranged over the 

 latter, producing a well-rounded cavity six inches in 

 diameter by two and a half in depth. This nest was 

 lined with the down of the bird, and contained five eggs 

 of a uniform pale yellowish or cream colour. This was 

 the only nest found on this occasion ; the female on 

 leaving her eggs uttered a rough guttural cry, somewhat 

 resembling that of the Goosander in similar circum- 

 stance. It appears that the Surf-Scoter has been met 

 with more frequently in the Orkneys than elsewhere on 

 our side of the Atlantic, but it has been captured in 

 many other localities in Great Britain and Ireland, as 

 also in the Faeroes, Swedish Lapland, in the Baltic, 

 once off Heligoland, and in some numbers on the 

 northern coast of France. 



