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Mr. E. Adams on the Birds of Michalaski. 
wards a considerable number were always to be met with 
about the inland marshes. They seem to live very much 
upon insects, which they capture upon the water and about 
the rushes. 
The small inland lakes were their principal places of resort ; 
and their nests were generally upon the grassy banks. The 
eggs are small, much elongated, and slightly larger at one 
end. Their colour is very pale sea-greeu. 
4- Shoveller. Anas clypeata. 
Yu-gok-pukj Eski. 
[^Spatula clypeata, Dali & Bann. p. 297.] 
I only met with a single pair of Shovellers; and none were 
killed by the Russians. The natives confounded it with the 
Mallard; and nobody knows any thing of it; so that it is pro¬ 
bably very rare. It is the only bird with which I found the 
natives unacquainted. 
-j- American Scaup. Fuligula mariloides. 
[Probably Fulix affinis of Dali & Bannister’s paper (p. 298.)] 
The first of these birds I shot on the 12th of May. They 
Avere not numerous; nor did I ever observe them about the 
lakes. When about the marshes shooting I sometimes met 
with one or two flying about; but all were males. Four spe¬ 
cimens which I procured agreed in being much darker on 
the back than Fuligula marila ; and instead of pure white the 
belly Avas of a dirty greyish colour. In size they agreed with 
the measurements given in the ^ Fauna Boreali-Americana,^ 
except that they were longer in the tarsus. 
-|L American Scoter. (Edemia americana (Swains.). 
Too-tdr-lik, Eski. 
SJEdemia americana, Dali & Bann. p. 300.] 
These birds were rather late in their arrival; I met Avith 
none until the 19th of May. Towards the end of the month 
several pairs had taken possession of the larger lakes near 
Michalaski; here they remained to breed, seldom going out 
to sea, but keeping together in small flocks in the middle of 
the lake. Their nests were well secreted in the clefts and 
hollows about the steep banks of the lakes, close to the water; 
