392 APPENDIX. VII. 



distances from land on the same vast watery 

 tract, nor is ever found near shore except by 

 some very rare accident, unless in the breeding 

 season. We found it on some little rocky isles, 

 off the north of Skie. It also breeds in St. Kilda. 

 We also suspect that it nestles on the Blasquet 

 isles off Kerry, and that it is the Gourder of 

 Mr. Smith.* 

 Mergan-- This whole 2;enus is mentioned among the 



SERS. . . ^ . 



birds that nil the Lapland lakes during summer. 

 I have seen the young of the Red-breasted in the 

 north of Scotland: a few of these, and perhaps 

 of thcf Goosanders, may breed there. 

 Ducks. Of the numerous species that form this genus, 



we know of few that breed here ; the Szvan 

 and Goose, the Shield Duck, the Eider Duck, 

 a few Shovelers, Garganies, and Teals, and a 

 very small portion of the wild Ducks. The 

 rest contribute to form that amazing multi- 

 tude of water fowl, that annually repair from 

 most parts of Europe to the woods and lakes 

 of Lapland and other arctic regions, J there 



* Smith's hist. Kerry, 186. 



f Goosanders pair in the breeding season and build their nests 

 in the small holms in the loch of ^'i;e?j«z5. Barry Hist, of Ork- 

 neys. 302. Ed, 



X Barentz found the Bernacles with their nests in great num- 

 bers in Nova Zemhla. Collect- voy. Dutch East-hidm Company, 

 8vo. 1703. p. 19. Clusius in his Exot. 368. also observes, that 



