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Lake Umbagog
1898.
September 15
(No 2)
  In all we must have seen at least seventy or 
eighty Black Ducks, fifty Wood Ducks and twelve or fifteen 
Hooded Mergansers besides a Teal (doubtless Anas
carolinensis) which was flying in company with
four black ducks.
[margin]Moose Pt.
at
evening[/margin]
  Melvin saw the Fulica swimming about in the
flooded grass & watched it for a long time. It
finally disappeared in the grass but a little later
while pushing the boat across the marsh he flushed
and shot it. It is only the second bird of
the kind that I have ever seen at Umbagog.
[margin]Fulica
americanus[/margin]
  At Lakeside this morning I heard a White-bellied
Nuthatch calling what-wot-wot at short regular 
intervals for ten or fifteen minutes. 
[margin]Sitta carollinensis
singing in
autumn[/margin]