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Nettion carolinense. GREEN-wINGED TEAL.— 
Spatula clypeata. SHOVELLER.— 
Dafila acuta. Prinrarn.— ; 
Marila valisineria. Canvaspack.— In spite of the in some respects 
backward fall migration this year (1916), many Ducks reached Long 
Island unusually early, and our earliest dates for the following species, 
except the Shoveller, were obtained at Mastic. Mallard, two or three, and 
one Pintail, August 21; Green-winged Teal, a few, September 4. All 
three species observed with Black Duck. Canvasback, October 11, and 
Shoveller October 14 (one and two respectively killed by Dr. Rolfe Floyd). 
The earliest date for Shoveller is October 1 (1913), Quogue, a male and 
female killed from a flock of three by Mr. H. F. Stone. The rarity of this 
duck perhaps accounts for its not having been recorded from the island 
earlier in the season. The Mallard occurs occasionally in winter as well 
as in migrations. A Mallard observed at Long Beach, March 26, 1911, by 
Messrs. C. H. Rogers, Ludlow Griscom and G. E. Hix, we consider the 
earliest spring date. The Pintail in 1916 either wintered or lingered very 
late in unusual numbers. It was repeatedly observed during December 
on the lake in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. A flock of about a dozen were 
observed December 16 at Roslyn and another of thirteen individuals was 
seen December 24 near East Rockaway. 
Mareca penelope. EvuropraANn WinGEon.— One drake April 5-7, 1912 
(Gardiner’s Island) has not been recorded. 
Chaulelasmus streperus. Gapwatu.—A fine drake shot by Mr. 
Samuel Bettle at the South Side Club, November 27, 1914. Two drakes 
were shot by Mr. Edwin Thorne at the South Side Club, Oakdale on 
December 13, 1916, and a female was also killed by another member of 
the club. 
Marila americana. RepHEAD.— Two, March 12, 1911 (Long Beach), 
a recent spring record for western Long Island. 
Marila marila. Scaup Duck.— May 30, 1911 (Long Beach) latest 
spring date. 
Marilasp. Scavp. 
Charitonetta albeola. BurrieEHEAD. 
Oidemia americana. AMERICAN SCOTER. 
Oidemia deglandi. WHtItTe-wINGED ScoTER. 
Oidemia perspicillata. Surr Scoter.— Crippled ducks of various 
species are of course to be found on Long Island during the summer. 
Individuals of non-breeding species which can not be classed as cripples 
also occasionally occur. Such are a Scaup over the Narrow Bay, June 26, 
1915, a female or immature plumaged Bufflehead May 13, 1916, and a male 
Bufflehead in summer a few years previously, all observed on the wing at 
Mastic. Three American Scoters, of which one acted like a cripple, were 
seen off False Point, Montauk, on August 8, 1915; a White-winged Scoter 
lay a short distance off shore at Eaton’s Neck, on the Sound, for the greater 
part of the week ending August 6, 1916. Six were seen together off Rocky 
