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drakes and a duck. The number of the flock seen on these several 

 bodies of water indicates beyond a doubt that it is one and the 

 same flock remaining tenaciously throughout the winter and 

 occupying one or another of these places at will according to con- 

 ditions. 



Nettion carolinense. Green-winged Teal. — A female was 

 seen on the pond November 12 and 13, frequently coming to the 

 shore with the Mallards and allowing approach as near as fifty feet. 

 This was a transient visitor only. Two days later, Mrs. Edmund 

 Bridge, who had seen the bird with me at Jamaica Pond, saw a 

 female on a small pond in the Arnold Arboretum about a mile 

 southward, presumably the same teal. Mrs. Bridge says it was 

 as unconcerned there as it had been on Jamaica Pond. 



In connection with this record it may be interesting to state 

 that in the season of 1907-8 a Green-winged Teal drake passed the 

 entire winter in Boston and vicinity. I first saw him on December 

 13 in the Back Bay Fens. When the waters here became frozen, 

 he passed for a time in January to Jamaica Pond, I am informed. 

 Later he accompanied a flock of park Mallards to the Charles 

 River Basin, where Muddy River enters, and lived there for a 

 while. I saw him there on January 28 and February 10 and 14. 

 On February 15 he had gone to Leverett Pond, and on February 

 26 was on Chestnut Hill Reservoir. On March 12 and 14 he was 

 again seen in the Fens and on March 16 was on Fresh Pond. 

 Further he was not traced. He was very handsomely plumaged, 

 would swim about happily with the Mallards, and allow one to 

 view him as near as twenty or thirty feet. I was informed by a 

 patrolman in the Fens, where I first saw this teal, that he had 

 come and joined the Mallards about the first of December. In all 

 probability the teal seen in succession on these six different bodies 

 of water was one and the same teal. It was my wont, when I 

 found him in a new location, to go to the place where I had last 

 seen him, and I found in every instance that he was absent from 

 there. Thus it proved impossible to locate two Green-winged 

 Teal drakes in the vicinity. One other record in a recent year 

 should be mentioned, that of a female on Leverett Pond, December 

 22, 1906. 



Aix sponsa. Wood Duck. — Mr. Barron Brainerd informs me 



