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male spent a week or more in this sheet of water. I had a good view of it on 

 the 23d of the month, when it was feeding in company with some Whistlers 

 within one hundred yards of the sea-wall on the Boston side of the river. 



I cannot learn that the BufHe-head has ever been noted in spring in the 

 Cambridge Region, and of late its autumnal visits appear to have been becoming 

 less and less frequent. Indeed my only local records (besides the one last 

 given) which relate to the past nine years are as follows. 



November 24, 1897. An adult male .seen by O. A. Lothrop. 

 November 9, 1898. An adult male .seen by O. A. Lothrop. 

 November 12, iSgS. An adult male seen by Walter Deane. 

 November 21, 1898. A single bird seen by O. A. Lothrop. 

 October 30, 1899. A fine adult male seen by O. A, Lothrop. 



The bird noted on November 9, 1898, was in the Glacialis. All the other records 

 relate to Fresh Pond. 



34. Harelda hyemalis (Linn.). 

 Old-squaw. 



Transient visitor in late autumn. 



SEASONAL OCCURRENCE. 



October 24, 1871, seven males seen, Fresh Pond, W. Brewster. 

 November 17, 1870, one female^ found dead, Fresh Pond, W. lirewster. 



If I remember rightly, a few Old-squaws were killed every autumn in Fresh 

 Pond during the years (i 868-1 872) when I was accustomed to shoot there regu- 

 larly. My notes, however, furnish but few definite records for this pond ; they 

 are as follows : — 



On November 5, 1870, a pair of Old-squaws, accompanied by eight Ruddy 

 Ducks, alighted in the pond about sunrise. After the flock had been fired into 

 and scattered by another gunner, the Old-squaws came my way and dropped into 

 the water not far from my boat. I sculled up to within thirty yards of them 

 and killed them both. The female is still in my collection. I have another 

 specimen (also a female) which I found early on the morning of November 17 

 of the same year, floating dead in Fresh Pond. Evidently it had died from the 



1 No. 4068, collection of William Brewster. 



