1039, 
October 3. 
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Oidemia americana. 
Lake Umbagog. 
were going through a motion which seems to be peculiar 
to Scoters ff not to the single species, 0. americana . This motion 
is difficult to describe. The bird seems to raise the entire for¬ 
ward half of his body out of the water and lengthening his neck 
stretchds it straight upward, presenting nearly the appearance of 
a bottle floating with its neck upright. He then shortens his 
neck aid sinks back into the water. The wings are not opened. 
The action takes only a fraction of a second. 
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October 19. Lake Umbagog. 
Off B Brook Cove . 
We finally -paddled to the latter (0.americana) near 
Metalluc Id. and I stopped seven with four barrels (of my two guns) 
getting all after reshooting two or three. Six of the seven were 
young birds. There was not a black male in the whole flock. 
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October 21. Lake Umbagog. 
C-lasr>y Gove . 
In the ,Cove two Scoters apparently feeding close to the 
marsh. One dove. I shot the other and found it to be a young 
Butter-bill apparently not a wounded bird. 
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1890, Lake Umbagog. 
October 21. , _B_Bnaok._dojre. 
We next tried the large flock of Butter-bills and got 
within good shot of them. They rose and flew across our bows when 
I shot down five with the first barrel and three with the second, 
getting all but one of the total eight. Hour were killed outright. 
