. British birds. Birds. VOL. VI.] SPRING-NOTES ON THE BORDERS. Ill eight feet deep, and possibly more, of rotten ooze, semi- liquid. Their nests are usually near the open water, say only a yard or two inside the fringing jungle of dense swamp-vegetation, and often amidst those of Black- headed Gulls which nest by hundreds in such situations, and are compactly constructed of dead reeds, y •" POCHARD DIVIXG. (Greenlee Lough, February 23.) {Drawn by A. Chapman.) Pochards' eggs are distinctly larger, paler, and, to my eye, less green than those of Tufted Ducks, and are laid a trifle ear
. British birds. Birds. VOL. VI.] SPRING-NOTES ON THE BORDERS. Ill eight feet deep, and possibly more, of rotten ooze, semi- liquid. Their nests are usually near the open water, say only a yard or two inside the fringing jungle of dense swamp-vegetation, and often amidst those of Black- headed Gulls which nest by hundreds in such situations, and are compactly constructed of dead reeds, y •" POCHARD DIVIXG. (Greenlee Lough, February 23.) {Drawn by A. Chapman.) Pochards' eggs are distinctly larger, paler, and, to my eye, less green than those of Tufted Ducks, and are laid a trifle earlier. We found a full clutch on May 10th, and saw the first young afloat on June 9th. The nests at first contain little or no " down " till incubation has commenced, say about May 18th. Two nests, with eggs already half-incubated (as tested in water), had no "down" at all ; in another, examined this spring, and from which the young had just been hatched, no sign of " down " could be found. Exceptionally, a single nest (occupied both last year and this) was situate on firm ground ashore, in the midst of a clump of tall rushes. It was composed of very scanty materials, but had a lot of " down,". 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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