. British birds. Birds. p. H. BAHR: THE SCAUP-DUCK IN SCOTLAND. 215 nest with eleven eggs was found. While I busied myself taking some photographs, Kinnear explored the remaining island of the series. This was also very small, had a rocky base, with large tufts of long grass on top. A brown duck was flushed off a nest, and settled on the water but twenty yards from the shore, and was watched for a quarter of an hour at a stretch through glasses. At the same time a drake Scaup was seen riding out on the loch at some distance from the island, and he, Fig. 3.—The Duck Scaup coming of
. British birds. Birds. p. H. BAHR: THE SCAUP-DUCK IN SCOTLAND. 215 nest with eleven eggs was found. While I busied myself taking some photographs, Kinnear explored the remaining island of the series. This was also very small, had a rocky base, with large tufts of long grass on top. A brown duck was flushed off a nest, and settled on the water but twenty yards from the shore, and was watched for a quarter of an hour at a stretch through glasses. At the same time a drake Scaup was seen riding out on the loch at some distance from the island, and he, Fig. 3.—The Duck Scaup coming off the Nest. (Drawn by P. H. Bahr.) in company with a drake Tufted, flew past me in my hiding-place. Kinnear refrained from investigating any further, but noted that the nest was situated in a deep hollow some nine inches below the level of the ground, and well guarded by large tufts of grass (Fig. 1) ; a trampled pathway led up from the edge of the water to the nest. An hour after he returned with me. On our approach the duck was seen leaving the nest, threading her way, with neck stretched in front of her, through the matted grass. She scuttled into the water (Fig. 3) and remained within thirty yards of the bank. The white patch and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London, Witherby & Co
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