Q.uerquedula discors . 
Curtis Meadow, Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
1900. 
A tame Blue-winged Teal 
Sept.14. 
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were about to leave the pond when a Blue-winged Teal darted 
past me about on a level with my head and so near that I in¬ 
stinctively struck at it with ip>y paddle. It alighted in the 
aaff and swimming to the shore climbed to 
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