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igio, on Cherry Pond, and the latest, that of seven birds on the 

 same pond on September 25, in 1908. Mrs. Bridge states that 

 for several seasons, prior to 1908, she saw one or two Blue- 

 winged Teal on the Moose River in Randolph on or about Sep- 

 tember 16 of each year. 



15. Dafila acuta. Pintail. 



A rare fall migrant. One record. A young male was seen 

 on Cherr}' Pond by Mr. G. B.Wellman, my assistant, and myself 

 on September 18 and 25, 1908. This bird had been first seen 

 by Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Bridge on September 17. It was 

 very unsuspicious of harm, especially on the da^^ of our first 

 observation, and allowed us to approach as near as twelve feet, 

 while it sat on the water unconcerned, tipping, feeding, and 

 pluming itself, near the shore of a cove. When at length it 

 arose, it alighted again only a short distance away. A week 

 later it behaved much the same, but was somewhat more shy, 

 and on our next visit, again a week later, it was not found. 



16. Aix sponsa. Wood Duck. 



A rare migrant. On October 4, 1910, when paddling with 

 my assistant on lyittle Cherry Pond, he called my attention to 

 two ducks sitting quietly on the water with a patch of frost- 

 bitten pickerel-weed as their background, which in its browned 

 condition afforded them essential concealment and yet left them 

 open to our view. They were about eight rods in advance of 

 us. I slowly raised my glasses and saw at once that the two 

 birds were a pair of Wood Ducks in full adult plumage. We 

 were able to view them two or three minutes before they rose 

 on wing and flew to the inlet stream which is hidden by alders 

 and tamaracks, where they appeared to alight ; but we did not 

 find them when we paddled about in that vicinit}'. As we had 

 been a number of times on this pond and on Cherry Pond dur- 

 ing the season and had obtained no trace of a Wood Duck, these 

 must be regarded as a pair of migrant birds. The species had 

 not been seen in previous seasons on any waters in the region. 



