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they were built of coarse grass^ and well lined with feathers 
and down. They had not laid when I last examined the 
nests. 
Long-tailed Duck. Harelda glacialis. 
Ad-le-guk-lu-luk, Eski. 
[Harelda glacialis, Dali & Bann. p. 298.] 
First appeared on the 7th of May, when scarcely any of 
them had completed their spring moult—white feathers about 
the head and scapulars yet remaining. They Avere by no 
means numerous/ and generally only in pairs. They bred 
about the inland marshes. The nest is like that of other 
Sea-Ducks. The eggs, six to nine in number, were very 
long, measuring 2 in. 3 lin. by 1 in. 5 lin. Colour rather 
dark olive-green. One of my specimens had the red patch 
remaining on the bill. 
-./ Blue-EYED Duck. 
Ong-6o, Eski. 
[Lampronetta fischeri, Brandt; Gray, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 212, 
pi. 108; Dali & Bann. p. 299.] 
Three young birds (which I have called as above, for the 
sake of distinction) were shot out of a flock on the 28th of 
May. One only was a male, immature, and too much shat¬ 
tered by the shot to be worth preserving, as I expected to 
get more; however, I saved the head and neck. The whole 
plumage was of rather a light-brown colour, with white streaks 
beginning to appear on the scapulars, which were long, but 
only slightly curved; the feathers on the occiput and nape 
elongated, and those around the eye radiating from it, and 
apparently assuming a greyish metallic colour; quills and 
I tail-feathers dark greyish brown; bill wine-yelloAV, shading 
into horn-colour at the tip, nail horn-colour ; legs and toes 
dirty yellow; webs dusky, resembling those of the King Eider 
{Somateria spectabilis) ; bill broad and depressed, pitted near 
the nail, compressed just before the edge of the bill joins the 
nail, nail of moderate size; frontal feathers encroaching upon 
the bill as far as the front of the nostrils, and ending in a 
