34 Bulletin 8 



1. Colymbus holboellii — Holboell grebe. Winter visitor. 1904, Feb. 



18, seven taken alive; 1910, Jan. 1, one taken alive; 1912, Feb. 

 12, one taken alive; 1913, March 14, one taken alive. 



2. Podilymbus podiceps — Pied-billed grebe. Winter visitor, not very 



common. 



3. Gavia imber — Loon. June, 1906, one adult shot on Big Pond, 



Woodford; was mounted and is owned privately; 1908, Jan. 14, 

 a young adult captured alive; 1910, Nov. 25, a young adult shot. 



4. Gavia lumme — Red-throated loon. 1905, Oct. 28, a young adult 



taken alive in a door-yard on the main street of the village of 

 Bennington. 



5. Uria lomvia — Brunnich murre. 1908, Dec. 16, one killed by boys 



with stones in a stream just where it flows under the main 

 street of the village of Bennington. 



6. AUe alle — Dovekie. One taken alive on the Vt. Soldiers' Home 



grounds, Bennington, May 31, 1910. It died the following day 

 and is now in the State Museum at Montpelier. This bird was 

 in breeding plumage and Prof. Wells W. Cooke of U. S. Bio- 

 logical Survey says that it is the only reported dovekie in 

 breeding plumage taken in the United States. 



7. Sterna hirundo — Common tern. Has been seen only once and 



then in Bennington, May 30, 1907. 



8. Merganser americanus — American merganser. A frequent win- 



ter visitor. 



9. Anas boschas — Mallard. A winter visitor coming early and stay- 



ing late. 



10. Anas obscura — Black duck. Has been shot once during fall mi- 



gration. 



11. Aythya marila — American scaup duck. Only two identified — one 



seen in Bennington, Oct. 8, 1905, and one shot in Woodford, 

 Oct. 25, 1911. 



12. Harelda hyemalis — Old squaw. Only one identified — an adult 



male in winter plumage shot in Woodford, Nov. 13, 1911. 



13. Oidemia americana — American scoter. Has been shot on Lake 



Paran, North Bennington, several years during fall migrations. 

 Over 50 were shot on Oct. 14, 1913. 



14. Oidemia perspicillata — Surf scoter. Two shot in Pownal, Sept. 



23, 1905. Both were mounted and one was placed in the State 

 Museum and the other in the Museum at U. V. M. 



