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at the Woods farm. Messrs. F. G. and M. C. Blake were 

 observers of this bird with me. On June 26, 1908, a mother 

 and brood of ten young were seen on the Peabody River at the 

 bridge where the road over the shoulder of Mt. Madison crosses 

 the stream, two miles north from the (ilen. The young 

 were estimated to be about three weeks old. The family 

 was swimming near or under the bridge when we approached 

 toward six o'clock in the afternoon, and scurried in a bunch 

 down stream, the mother surrounded by her ducklings, all 

 seeming to run on the water by the use of both wings and 

 feet. The}^ got away very quickly, but not until viewed by 

 us for perhaps two minutes. On June 22, 1909, a female flew 

 in and alighted on Cherry Pond. On the following day a female 

 was, seen flying back and forth over Israel's River near the 

 Meadows. The movement was uninterrupted during the half- 

 hour that we remained. My assistant went to the bank of the 

 river to investigate whether young were on the water, but could 

 not see any. His approach, however, led the bird to extend 

 her flight somewhat farther down stream and there to resume 

 her elliptical courses. In 19 10, while waiting for a train in the 

 valley at Boy Mountain station in the early morning of Septem- 

 ber 29, nine Mergansers passed over in flight eastward at rather 

 low range. 



10. Lophodytes cucullatus. Hooded Merganser. 



A spring and fall migrant. Mr. Spaulding states that 

 " Hooded Mergansers have been taken in lyancaster both in 

 spring and fall." He has a handsome male in his collection 

 which he shot on Israel's River on April 19, 1893. 



11. Anas platyrhynchos. Maelard. 



An uncommon spring and fall migrant. In Dr. Allen's 

 "Birds of New Hampshire " Mr. Spaulding contributes the 

 record of " one shot on a pond near Lancaster in the spring of 

 1888 or '89." Mr. Spaulding furnishes an additional record, 

 that of a bird " shot on November 3, 1906, from a flock of about 

 seventy-five on the Connecticut River below the village," 



