Boe Proceedings of Indiana Academy of Neience. 
15. LoPpHODYTES CUCULLATUS (Linnieus). HOODED MERGANSER. (131) 
A not very common spring and fall migrant: possibly a few breed, but of 
this I have no positive evidence, although I have often met with single pairs 
about swamps and ponds in midsummer, and have seen them on Deer Creek 
in July. A young male obtained and seven or eight others seen on Deer 
Creek, near Camden, April 8, 1885. Three seen near Terre Haute, March 9, 
1SSS. 
16. ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS Linnzeus. MALLARD. (132) 
Formerly a rather common summer resident ; now chiefly a spring and fall 
migrant. 
I have not seen it often in Monroe County: my only record is of several 
seen on Griffy Creek near Bloomington, March 5, 1886. 
In Vigo County, it was, and doubtless is, more common. In early spring 
and again in the fall, Mallard ducks might be seen on any of the ponds 
or bayous along the Wabash River, and occasionally, in protected cover, 
in the river itself. Favorite places were the Five-mile Pond, near old 
Fort Harrison, the Goose Pond, and Greenfield Bayou. February 26 and 29, 
ISSS. I have no definite record of the Mallard nesting in Vigo County, but 
it no doubt did so in earlier days. 
In Carroll County, the Mallard was a common species during my boyhood 
days. It was then, of all the ducks, the most familiar species to me. In 
the spring, in all the quiet reaches of Wild Cat Creek. and in every woodland 
pond, however small, one or more pairs could be found. In those days a 
good many pairs were permanent summer residents, making their nests on 
some relatively dry tussock in the small ponds. In the summer and early 
fall, the family of old and young could be seen swimming about over the 
pond, or skurrying to cover in hidden places among the button-bushes. 
Noted in the Lafayette market March 14, 1879. 
17. ANAS RUBRIPES Brewster. BLACK pUCK. (133) 
I have never seen this duck in Monroe or Vigo County, but in March, 1879, 
I saw an example in the Delphi market which was said to have been shot 
on the Wabash, near by. 
18. CHAULELASMUS STREPERUS (Linnzeus). GADWALL. (135) 
A very rare spring and fall migrant. 
I have no record for Monroe or Carroll County. My only record for Vigo 
County is of a single specimen seen about 1887, in the possession of a resi- 
dent of Terre Haute. 
19. MARECA AMERICANA (Gmelin). BALDPATE. (137) 
A rare spring and fall migrant, most often seen on the creeks. I never 
observed it in Monroe County. <As to Vigo, my notes simply mention the 
species without giving definite places or dates, except for March 24, 1888, 
and March 26. 1889 and 1890. In Carroll County, it is not uncommon during 
