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no records. Mr. C. F. Goodhue writes me that he has once 

 taken it at Webster, and has mounted a specimen shot at Con- 

 cord about Dec. 13, 1899 



39. Aythya affiiiis (Eyt.). LESSER SCAUP DUCK. 



A rare migrant. Mr. C. F. Goodhue has obtained it near 

 Webster and Mr. G. H. Thayer writes that he has observed it 

 in fall at Dublin Pond. 



40. Aythya collaris (Donov.). RING-NECKED DUCK. 

 A very rare migrant. The only record at present available 



is that of a specimen obtained at Concord, during the last of 

 November, a number of years ago, by Mr. C. F. Goodhue in 

 whose mounted collection the specimen now is. 



41. Clang ula claiigula americana (Bonap.). AMER- 

 ICAN GoiyDEN-EYE. 



A common spring and fall migrant and winter resident along 

 the coast and on certain of the larger lakes and streams inland 

 in the southern part of the state ; a summer resident at Lake 

 Umbagog. Mr. William Brewster ( : oo) has given an interest- 

 ing and valuable account of the breeding habits of this bird as 

 observed by him at Umbagog, where, he states, it still nests 

 abundantly "especially about the outlet and throughout the 

 bottom lands of the lower Megalloway River, where the forests 

 were killed half a century ago by the back water from the dam 

 at Errol." The birds remain on the lake into November, dur- 

 ing which month, according to Mr. Ned Dearborn ('98, p. 7) 

 they first appear as migrants on the lakes in the southern part 

 of the state ' ' finally descending into the rivers when the larger 

 bodies of water are frozen over." Many of these birds, he 

 states, winter on the Winnipesaukee and Merrimack rivers. 

 Mr. G. H. Thayer writes that it is an irregular fall visitant to 

 Dublin Pond. There is a single male specimen in the collection 

 of the Acworth Public Library labeled as taken at Charlestown 

 on the Connecticut River, June 13, 1885. 



Dates : Summer; October to April 15 (June 13). 



4:2. Charitonetta albeola (Linn.). BUFFLE-HEAD. 

 An uncommon spring and fall migrant on the coast; occasion- 



