1889, 
October 22. 
C haritonetta albeola . 
Lake Umbagog. 
Pine Point . 
While waiting for breakfast saw a fine adult male Buffie- 
head floating on the calm surface of the Lake opposite our camp. 
Jim paddled me out but just before we started two Whistlers joined 
our bird and of course started him long before we were within gun 
range. 
Just after breakfast a pair of Buffle-heads, the male a 
superb adult and perhaps the same just mentioned, alighted in the 
cove just north of camp. I went over land to the water's edge but 
they swam across to the Moll's Rock shore and began diving there. 
Accordingly I returned and Jim paddled me across the mouth of the 
cove. Landing just inside the Rock I went through the woods and 
by making three runs 'when the birds were under water got within* 
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good range. I fired as they swam together, killing the adult male. 
<x ‘^ r “i c*, 
The other bird dove, quite by chance, just as I pressed the trig- 
ger and I had to fire the other barrel at her after s&e came to the 
surface. 
