O.feO.Vol.17, June, 1892 p.90 
WfttoT Birds, Nantucket, Mass. 
fl- sorga H. Meekly. General Notes.- 
Aythya marila nearctica. — May I, 1892, I saw two flocks of American 
| Scaup, about twenty-five in each flock; they were resting in the Hum- 
; muck Pond. They were probably the remainder of those which have 
■ been in this locality all winter, numbering fully five hundred. I saw 
I several hundred of them in the same pond on Feb. 21. There have been 
! more of these Ducks about the island during the winters of 1891 and 
1892 than for many years. In times past they were abundant every year. 
I noted a good many more of them during the past autumn, winter and 
: j spring than in the previous year. They appear early in November and 
1 are mostly gone by May 1. 
Auk 9 .July, 1892 . p .304 
e ' Aak * XV, April, 1898. p < /»?. 
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0,1 the same da - v ’ February 7^ two Scaup Ducks (Aythya marila nearc- 
/ ticai ) came in to the decoys put in the harbor of Barnstable, and although 
neither of the birds were taken, Mr. Shattuck feels confident of their iden- 
tity as he knows the bird well. The usual northern limit of the Scaup 
Duck’s winter range is Long Island, N. Y. I ' 
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