the golden-eyed ducks. 
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'armed, they genefallv®.. ^ ^“^'"g-gfounds. When 
‘'^^n^selves obSerSll ‘h^y find 
?ne after anothfrwhh f '"®^‘ ‘fP^ up from the water, 
" ‘'^e air, they ann^r^tn launched 
are oblLff ^ ^^ry quickly, though their 
^'derable noisi ^Th '^‘‘h con- 
obtain much 0 ^'^°/^ swim and dive with perfect ease, 
. ‘ Although th,^ Q ^ “"'^0’’ '^^'or. 
f'^by, it does not ann?”^: 't*''" taste very 
^,'0 Its favourite fooThm fish-eater. Shell-fish 
e larvm of various in<;err^ "'"^b crustaceans, 
confinement Monm a ®°'oc vegetable matter. 
K gf^^'y at once /ound it remarkably tame, feeding 
barley.-. "'’^e on soaked bread, and after a few days on 
Nest..-_A..„ .. 
Seebohm, “the Scaup generally 
b'om the edge°o he but high enough 
Je ; . 's SwIvs^LT”'® floods, on which to build her 
tim ^ocidenmlirfriem-"''®'' "u be found ex- 
b^ositisuiarpH ^b^ gbtoning off the sitting Duck. Some- 
‘be opej, carefidlv ■'“ u'’''" bush, but more often 
^Orrounded by SanLb hole in the rough ground 
2/c^ge or cotton %,b'’be">es struggling amidst tufts 
^cdge, and, as thre’f P’O hole is lined with dry broken 
["'■'"ed, sufficient ^ocumulation of down is 
‘bem to feed.” ‘ ‘ ^eep them warm when the Duck leaves 
®8gs.-~,pj . 
®>e.colo« jo ooniber, of a pale greenish-grey 
S "" eggs in’a ne.f '• ""el C. E. Pearson once foLd 
diam., >0 a nest m Iceland. Axis, a-sj-a-fis inches; 
Ibe same c^£fctef ‘'" d? t ‘be Tufted Scaup, but of about 
b'amentous tips fnH b chocolate-brown, with Paler brown 
the ^ ‘be o’lflfllo- 
I^UCKS. GENUS CLANGULA. 
^ »' reach, ,„ 
The genus r/ (T.). 
for which I adopt the well-known Eng- 
