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Nest. Eggs laid on bank of a stream, in a meadow, or in a 

 thicket, some distance from the water. 



Eggs. Usually 9 (n). 



Breeding records. May 12, 1898, nine eggs, and June 8, 1899, 

 nine eggs, New London (Hill) ; May 20, 1901, eleven eggs, Kent 

 (H. K. J.) ; April 22, 1904, five eggs, incomplete, Kent (Austin). 

 At Saybrook Judge Clark found two nests of this duck. 



Fall migrants reached Litchfield on Sept. 7, 1905 (E. S. W.). 



Chaulelasmus streperus (Linnaeus). Gadwall. 



Very rare. 



Merriam 1 states that it occurs during migrations, though not 

 common (1876). At that time Capt. Brooks wrote Merriam that 

 these birds were " occasionally seen " about Faulkner's Island. 

 Linsley wrote that " flocks of the Gray Duck were here as early as 

 August last season" (1842). One was shot at East Hartford, 

 Nov. 5, 1883 (W. E. T.). 



The only recent records are those of H. K. J., who heard of 

 two being shot at Twin Lakes about the middle of November, 

 I907, 2 and states that Mr. W. A. Miles has killed others there; 

 and the two young males taken on the Quinnipiac Marshes 

 (North Haven), Oct. 12, 1912, by A. and W. Ganung (in coll. 

 of L. B. B.). 



Mareca americana (Gmelin). Baldpate. 



A rare winter resident on the Sound from October to March. 



Earliest record. Quinnipiac Marshes, New Haven, Oct. n, 

 1909 (A. Ganung). 



Latest record. Clinton, March 27, 1899 (J. F. Parker). 



Inland records. Hamden, Oct. 16, 1880 (Woolsey, in coll. of 

 Peabody Museum) ; Middletown, fall, 1882, five out of a flock 

 of seven killed by J. Taylor (J. H. S.) ; Portland, April, 1883, a 

 male shot (J. H. S.) ; Portland, Oct. 23, 1888, a female shot by 

 J. L. Goff (in coll. of J. H. S.) ; Bantam Lake, Litchfield, one 

 shot Oct. 20, 1904, and another, Oct. 20, 1905, by H. Sanford 

 (E. S. W.). 



1 Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 124. 



3 Job, The Sport of Bird Study, p. 291. 



