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Seconnett Point,R.I., 
April 16-21, /If ft 
More or less migrate every morning from sunrise till nine 
o'clock a.m., the heaviest flight being on the 20th, when thirty 
or forty birds were seen. - Sometimes two or three were in 
sight at once, but ad - fc separate and independantly 1 of one 
another. They usually flew rather high,-seventy-five to one hun¬ 
dred yards above the water_theirr legs stretched out behind un¬ 
der the tail, their necks carried aft fyill length, as straight as 
ram-rod4, The wing-beats were regular and rapid and the flight 
swift, although apparently slower than that of most of the Ducks. ■ 
^T^oy rarely or never turned out for a boat, but kept strai ght on^ 
T'eveft when fired at and wounded. They of ten ai ighted off the Point 
and spent the day fishing in the neighboring waters. On the I8th 
as we were sitting on the cliff on the south side of West Island, 
a fine adult laaraa suddenly came to the surface below us and per¬ 
haps one hundred yards away, having a flounder fully eight inches 
long by five inches wide in his hill. For five or six minutes, he 
paddled about in plain view of us, working hard,apparently, to 
reduce his priie to a sufficient degree of softness to be easily 
swallowed. He would pinch the fish fiercely in his bill, then 
droppiitand strike it a number of hard blows in quick succession, 
arching his neck and darting out his bill nearly horizont lly, in¬ 
stead of striking downward. Twice the fish sunk, and he had to 
dive after it. Finally he raised it in his bill and, stretching 
his neck to its full length, his bill pointing straight upward, he 
gave two or three vigorous gulp^ls and swallowed the fish. 
