512 Smyth, Birds of Montgotnery County, Va. \_o^. 



17. Querquedula discors. Blue-winged Teal. — A regular spring 

 visitor in March and April. All my records are from the college ice-pond. 



18. Spatula clypeata. Shoveller. — Rare. One male with three 

 females on the ice-pond on February 14, 1911. T secured the male which 

 was in fine plumage. One female with three female Baldpates on the pond 

 the whole of Sunday, April 9, 1911. These, my only records. 



19. Aix sponsa. Wood Duck. — I killed a female that sprang from a 

 ditch to which I was walking, October 19, 1901; and a pair, male and 

 female, were seen at close range as they sprang from a stream in the open 

 field, October 23, 1902. 



20. Marila americana. Redhead. — Three records in March, 1911; 

 one flock of eight birds on the wing; one fine drake, on the ice-pond, ob- 

 served with the glass, and the next morning, one female, killed on the ice- 

 pond. 



21. Marila valisineria. Canvas-back. — A magnificent drake of 

 this species and a fine male Ring-neck weie killed at one shot on the ice- 

 pond on March 11, 1911. The breast and belly of the Canvas-back were 

 richly suffused with brick-red, as was also the case with a drake Mallard 

 secured in late February here. 



22. Marila affinis. Lesser Scaup Duck. — A regular spring and 

 winter visitor, in November, January, March and April, and one female 

 as late as May 28. The largest flock seen at one time on the ice-pond, con- 

 tained eighteen birds. One day in January a small flock of six, of both 

 sexes, lit on the ice of the frozen pond, awkwardly walking about with their 

 bodies held very erect. They remained, squatting on the ice for over an 

 hour, when a passer-by scared them. 



23. Marila collaris. Ring-necked Duck. In some numbers during 

 March and April, 1906, as many as five together at one time. Only twice 

 since have they been recorded. I have noticed with these and the Lesser 

 Scaup Duck, that when diving, the tail is always spread, and is deflexed as 

 the head is dipped under water. 



24. Charitonetta albeola. Buffle-head. — One male was killed 

 on the ice-pond May 1, 1898. The only record for this locality. 



25. Erismatura jamaicensis. Ruddy Duck. — One specimen, an 

 adult female, was killed on the ice-pond, November 10, 1910. 



26. Branta canadensis canadensis. Canada Goose. — In former 

 years, in the early nineties, several flocks could be seen or heard every 

 spring. These have become rarer. My records are mostly in March 

 from the 3rd to the 28th; one for February 22, one in early April, and I 

 have a female in my collection, killed together with two others, on New 

 River, five miles from here, on May 9, 1901. I have seen a flock of thirty- 

 eight fly over my yard, within gun-shot. 



27. Botaurus lentiginosus. Bittern. — Doubtless more common 

 than it appears to be; I have only five records; October and November, 

 April and May. 



28. Ardea herodias herodias. Great Blue Heron. — An infre- 



