no MEMOIRS OF THE NTTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



A. Lothrop ; the fourth, of a pair of birds in high nuptial plumage preserved in 

 the collection of Mr. Warren E. Freeman who shot them in Spy Pond on June 

 20. 1S04. It is difficult to account for the presence here in June of Blue-winged 

 Teal, except on the assumption that they occasionally breed in the Cambridge 

 Region — which is not wholl\- improbable. 



25. Spatula clypeata (Linn.l. 

 Shoveller. 



A'ery r?je transient \-isitor. 



Nuttall says incidentally ^ that he examined a pair of young Shovellers 

 which were killed in Fresh Pond, ob\-iously before 1S34, and probably in autumn, 

 although he does not mention either the year or month. The instance furnished 

 by this ancient record is the only one known to me of the occurrence of the Shov- 

 eller in the Cambridge Region, while elsewhere in Massachusetts the bird has 

 been, during the entire period covered by my experience, one of the ver)- rarest 

 of our surface-feeding Ducks. 



;5. DaSla acuta (Linn.). 

 PisTAiL- Grat Duck. 



Radier lare tranaent vIsitQr. 



SEASOXJUL OCCCKKEKCE- 



^(3 S 1S73, one ad. male taken, Cambridge, T. H. Fames. 



October 3, 1SS2, fire sees, ooe female^ taken, Gladalis, C R. Lamb. 



December ai, 1S99, oae ad. male zisd Kie ~ — ' : = ; ;^ Fresh Pood, W. Brewster. 



AH bat one of my local reccrii : : : . 1 i^e to [daces now within 



die dty limits of Camfandge ; they are as foiktws : — 



! T. XsaS. Slsaaal of &e OrarAotogr of de Umted Staje i- i iri^ Tit it- 



* Xo. S3Q4, r ri H tn.imi m of ^^i:^ Bf fc ^g iAj. 



