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Birds at Sea.— On December 8, 1912, a live female Eider Duck (Sotoo- 
Seria dresseri) was brought to me. It had been captured on the deck of the 
steamship ‘ Juniata,’ off Cape Cod, Mass., December 5, having come aboard 
in a dense fog. It lived for ten days on celery tops — all other food 
refused — at the end of which time it died, and is now in my collection. 
On about October 16, 1911, two young Duck Hawks were captured on a 
tramp steamer coming to this port for bunker coal. The mate informed 
me they were about one hundred miles off Hatteras when the birds were 
taken. An Osprey also came aboard the same day, and all were easily 
captured as they were utterly exhausted. There had been a bad storm the 
day previous. These birds were examined by both my father and me 
and pronounced young of the year. We were unable to purchase them 
from the sailors. — Harold H. Bailey, Newport News, Va. 
AGUE 30, April, 19X3. p< 
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Somateria dresseri. ..American Eider. — Young King Eiders ( Soniateria ' 
spectabilis ) often occur in late fall on the Connecticut coast, but the only 
record for the present species that I know of since 1877 (Merriam, Trans. 
Conn. Acad., IV, 1877, p. 127) is that of a y.oung male which Mr. Alanson 
Ganung shot off West Haven on December 20, 1909, and very kindly 
gave me in the flesh. 
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