Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
1900. 
As we were approaching (the Stones and I had been pad- 
Sept.16. 
dling on the Lake) Moose Point a flock of 14 Goosanders came 
in from the Lake and alighted close to the shore. We sat mo¬ 
tionless in the canoes for sometime watching them. After 
swimming about a while in the shallow water they landed and 
stood in a long row on the mud facing us. Their positions 
while thus engaged were nearly erect or rather more erect 
than the true Anas stands, 
as they did freely and not 
birds they carried their bodies nearly horizontal. When we 
paddled in towards them they flew directly from the mud,. 
rising as easily as from the water. About a week ago I say; 
four and yesterday two young Goosanders that were still in 
the "flapper" stage and unable to fly. 
