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Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, he found a Ring-necked Duck dead 

 which had grasped a weed and died holding on to it under 

 water. 



Mr. Everett H. Hiscox, Jewett City, Connecticut, writes that 

 he was in a boat with two other hunters on Tadpole Pond near 

 that town, when one of them shot a Black Duck which dived 

 and failed to come up. They paddled to the spot. The duck 

 could be plainly seen clinging to the bottom in 3 feet of water. 



BLACK DUCK (Anas rubripes tristis). 



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



Wounded black ducks have been found clinging to under-water vegetation. 



He disengaged it with an oar, and it floated to the surface dead, 

 with the lily stems still in its mouth. 



Several observers tell of similar experiences with grebes. 

 But their evidence seems to indicate that these birds might 

 have been entangled by aquatic vegetation, as they could be 

 seen among vegetation on the bottom and remained there dead. 



Mr. Charles B. Morss, Bradford, Massachusetts, writes me 

 that, within the past ten years, he has known four Black Ducks 

 and two Green-winged Teals to cling when wounded to objects 

 on the bottom until death. He makes this definite by referring 

 to his notes. The observations were made at a pond in Essex 

 County, Massachusetts, and at Currituck Sound and Pamlico 

 Sound, North Carolina. He says that he cannot decide whether 



