no MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



A. Lothrop ; the fourth, of a pair of birds in high nuptial plumage preserved in 

 the collection of Mr. Warren E. Freeman who shot them in Spy Pond on June 

 20, 1894. It is difficult to account for the presence here in June of Blue-winged 

 Teal, except on the assumption that they occasionally breed in the Cambridge 

 Region — which is not wholly improbable. 



25. Spatula clypeata (Linn.). 

 Shoveller. 



Very rare transient visitor. 



Nuttall says incidentally ^ that he examined a pair of young Shovellers 

 which were killed in Fresh Pond, obviously before 1834, and probably in autumn, 

 although he does not mention either the year or month. The instance furnished 

 by this ancient record is the only one known to me of the occurrence of the Shov- 

 eller in the Cambridge Region, while elsewhere in Massachusetts the bird has 

 been, during the entire period covered by my experience, one of the very rarest 

 of our surface-feeding Ducks. 



26. Dafila acuta (Linn.). 

 Pintail. Gray Duck. 



Rather rare transient visitor. 



SEASONAL OCCURRENCE. 



April 3, 1873, one ad. male taken, Cambridge, T. H. Eames. 



October 2, 1882, five seen, one female'' taken, Glacialis, C. R. Lamb. 



December 21, 1899, one ad. male and one im. male seen, Fresh Pond, W. Brewster. 



All but one of my local records for the Pintail relate to places now within 

 the city limits of Cambridge ; they are as follows : — 



1 T. Nuttall, Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada. The Water 

 Birds, 1834, 376. 



2 No. 8204, collection of William Brewster. 



