Fulica arner icana 
Concord, 
1898 . 
Oct. 11. 
(NO. 2). 
Mass . 
pickerel weed. I went in after them out could not see either 
of them. When I hoisted my sail, however, one of them 
started from the reeds very near me and flew off down river, 
returning just as I reached the middle of the rapids, and 
circling around eves* me over the meadows finally alighting 
near the head of the lagoon again. It flew very fast with 
its legs stretched out behind. 
