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shot and badly wounded at Plum Lake, Wisconsin, in the 

 summer of 1917. It dived and stayed under water for several 

 minutes, when its dead body rose to the surface. He says that 

 it is "entirely certain" that it had not been entangled in any- 

 thing at the bottom. It rose well away from the lily pads in 

 which it might otherwise have been held down. Mr. Norman 

 A. Wood of the Museum, University of Michigan, tells of a 



Male. Female. 



SHOVELLER (Spatula clypeata). 



(From "Game Birds, Wild-Fowl and Shore Birds.") 

 Another bird that, when wounded, sometimes secretes itself under water. 



Red-head shot October 11, 1906, at Portage Lake, Michigan. 

 Mr. Wood says that he was in the boat when the bird was shot 

 on the wing. It fell, went under and did not come up. He 

 looked for it and at last found it holding on to some weeds 

 under water, dead. He had the same experience in October, 

 1920, at the same lake, but the bird was a Coot or Mud-hen. 

 The water was only about a foot above the weeds, and the 

 bird was dead. Mr. Harry M. Harrison, Camden, New Jersey, 

 says that in April, 1916, he wounded an American Merganser 



