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X 
or: 
11/ flight 
Ducks 
Hooded 
Mergansers 
Wood Ducks , etc 
Wood Ducks 
Golden-eyes 
Gooseander 
by a female or young male Gooseander. The Mergansers swam 
out of some button bushes near the “tent" and rising about 
100 yards away flew first down, then up, and finally down 
river again, passing me twice over,within gun range. 
Both looked nearly alike in the water but flying the male 
showed his white markings conspicuously. Their wings made 
a clear whistling sound audible in the still air four or 
five hundred yards away. 
The Wood Ducks were also among flooded brush. I 
came suddenly on them just as I turned the bend at "Hunts 
Pond" and they rose before I saw them A flying a few yards 
directly towards me before they could clear the bushes and 
then turning down river. The ma^e, a superb bird, uttered 
the oek, - oeeek and the female the Guinea-hen-like ker- a, 
ker- a. I started both Wood Ducks and Mergansers again 
before I reached Ball*s Hill. 
The Golden-eyes and Goosander rose together from 
the Beaver-dam rapid, the Gooseander croaking hoarsely as 
he flew. 
At about noon a single male Hooded Merganser flew 
up river past Ball's Hill. 
I saw very few birds at the hill to-day, a Junco, 
a Tree Sparrow and two Chickadees, comprising the list. 
Yisited the alder thicket and found the Mouse gone. As 
