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ey afford good shooting. Several 
ipers were seen in June along the 
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the nests and eggs of this species, 
jsequent attempts at hatching and 
iveniles. 
178 
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XI. Dec. 1886. p. 
them at liberty, and together they started 
on a run through Main street, continuing 
foi forty rods before they turned aside, a 
distance which they accomplished inside 
of five minutes; for the little things could 
run like squirrels. This ocuurred on the 
5th of May, and implies that the eggs 
must have been laid much earlier than I 
supposed was customary with the species. 
There was no water near and they seemed 
traveling from one creek overland to 
another, nearly a half ^6^17.^ As2. p. /** 
hologist’s Summer in Labrador 
M. Abbott Frazar. 
Anas obscura, Black Luck. -Not common, ] 
but a few pair found breeding on the islands; s 
the nests being generally placed upon the out- 
reaching branches of stunted spruces, which 
seldom attain at highest, above four feet. One 
nest was fully two hundred yards from the sea, 
and another which contained nine eggs, was 
distant at least one hundred yards from the 
water. The natives say they return year aftei 
year to the same nest. 
O.&O. XII.Feb. 1887. p./f. 
Clarlc , Old Saybrook, Conn. 
The Dusk y Duck breeds sparingly. A 
nest was found April 30. It was hollowed 
out at the foot of an old haystack, and 
extended in twenty-seven inches, being 
completely hidden by a curtain of hay 
hanging over the entrance. It contained 
ten eggs; incubation slight. The nest 
would not have been found had it not been 
for the old bird hissing like a snake as I 
passed by it. A farmer found a set of 
thirteen eggs of this Duck and hatched 
them all under a common hen, and at latest 
information all were living, awaiting the 
ignoble end of perishing at the block. 
O.&sO. |X,0ci,1884.p. Ui~ 
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