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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 Size. 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.* 
This whole genus is mentioned among the 
birds that fill 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 thet Goosanders, may breed there. 
Of the numerous species that form this genus, 
we know of few that breed here; the Swan 
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 Kzrope to the woods and lakes 
of Lapland and other arctic regions,f{ there 
* Smith's hist. Kerry, 186. 
+ Goosanders pair in the breeding season and build their nests 
in thesmall holms in the loch of Stennis. Barry Hist. of Ork- 
neys. 302. Ep. 
_{ Barentz found the Bernacies with their nests in great num- 
bers in Nova Zembla. Collect. voy. Dutch East-India Company, 
8vo. 1703. p. 19. Clusius in his Exot. 368. also observes, that 
