Oidemia perspioillata 
Lake limb agog, Maine. In a small pond. 
1897. Purdie and Will went to Errol in the forenoon and did not 
Sept.18. get bach until near sunset. They found four young Surf Sco¬ 
ters in a flooded meadow just above Errol Dam. Will taking 
them for Black Ducks landed and stalked them killing one. The 
others did not leave the meadow and getting the boat' he se¬ 
cured them all. It is indeed remarkable that they shoulcl^cfios 
en to alight in such a small forest-encircled sheet of water 
with the Lake so near at hand but I have known them to be 
killed in the Androscoggin before this. 
1399. Off the mouth of Cambridge River (I was sailing one 'of 
Oct.l. my canoes) I came upon a female or young Surf Scoter which 
was floating with its head buried among the scapular feathers 
and apparently fast asleep. The canoe was moving at great 
speed and its prow was not more than six or eight feet from 
the unconscious bird when the latter happened to raise its 
head and discovering the danger rose hurriedly and flew out 
over the Lake. 
