Oidemia deglandi . 
1390 , Lake Umbagog. 
October 13. 
Came back to camp for lunch after which M. started down 
the lake to the Tyler Cove in pursuit of a large flock of Scoters 
which Jim discovered there. They proved to be Velvet Scoters, a- 
bout thirty in number, all females and young. We killed seven of 
them and a female Surf Scoter which was with them. 
I spent an hour or more skinning birds and then started 
out. We had rowed only a few hundred yards when a flock of 19 
Velvet Scoters ( not the flock M.had been shooting at ) came flying 
up the lake low over the water in a line at right angles to their 
course of flight. As they passed me within 30 yds. I made a double 
shot, getting both birds. We followed them but aid not get a¬ 
nother good chance. 
