Fulica americana . 
Lake Umbagog . 
1898, (Shortly before sunset at Moose Point) Melvin saw the 
Sept. 15. Fulica swimming about in the flooded grass and 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 of the kind that I have ever 
seen at Umbagog. 
Sept. 24. As I was leaving the marsh (at Moose Point) after it had 
become nearly dark I started a Coot ( Fulica ) from a rank bed 
of half-submerged grass at almost the exact place where Mel- 
vin shot one a week or so (on Sept. 15) ago. I could have 
killed this bird easily enough. It pattered off over a space 
of open water, half running, half flying and finally alighted 
again in some grsLss beyond. 
| Concord, Mass. 
1898. As I approached Beaver Dam Rapid I saw xxrxxxx a Coot. 
Oct. 7. It had evidently discovered me for it was making for the 
pickerel weed which I soon reached and entered. I paddled to 
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the spot where it had disappeared and stood up in the canoe 
when it rose within 20 feet of me and flaw up to the extreme 
end of the lagoon. * * y x x x I did not see it again. 
Oct. 11. As I was passing the head of Beaver Dam Rapid I saw two 
Coots swimming in the lagoon on the right. They discovered 
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me almost as soon as I did them and at once paddled into the 
