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slate colour, through which was visible a red vascular network, so that 
the general effect was that of a pinky-slate. 
A Samoyed afterwards showed me the skins of seven adult Bewick 
swans. We saw nothing of the whooper. 
Mareca penelope (LINN.). Wigeon. 
Swetsun (R.). Harlgar (S.). 
I can only record a single pair of wigeon. These I saw on a small 
pool near the Sauchika entry on June 17. 
Fuligula cristata (LEACH). Tufted Duck. 
Tschernett (R.). 
On August rz we had a female tufted duck on a little lake before our 
Pesanka camp. She always kept to the middle, just out of shot. 
Twice when I was collecting insects at the edge of this lake she came 
flying close past me on her way to a second pool. Her identity is 
beyond all doubt. 
F. marila (LINN.). Scaup. 
Goloubaia, Tschernett, Beloglaska (R.). Harocérl (S.). 
On June 16 we saw a pair of scaup on one of the Bewick Lakes; 
and on July 8 I saw another pair on a lake in the lower Pesanka 
district. 
Harelda glacialis (LINN.). Long-tailed Duck. 
Vostrohwostka (R.). A-do (S.). 
Out of the numerous gatherings of these ducks we saw but a single 
drake in full spring plumage. This was on the sea on June 15. But 
though the drakes had lost their white heads and white scapulars they 
retained their central tail feathers. These were not moulted out till 
the first week in June, and on July 8 my note runs: ‘One scarcely sees 
a single male now with a long tail.’ Again, July 22: ‘Saw several 
harelda ; only one drake with a long tail.’ 
This duck far outnumbered any other species on Kolguev. The 
first nest I found was in the interior of the islands on June 27. No 
