167 
Anas obseura. 
Main© (Lake IJmbagog), 
1872. 
June 9. 
Saw ona Tloek oP sixteon and anothar of ^ightaon 
on B Meadows. Gideon Stone tells no that they '.•.'■ere the 
old drakes vh'iich alv/ays band together after tlie fenalos 
ji begin incubating. 
1874. 
Sept. 1, 
1879. 
ly 29. 
Shot a pair; one of vdiicli v/as apparently perfectly 
blirifi in both eyes, the pupil being opaque and v/hito. 
Tv/o flocks (one containing tv/onty birds) and many 
single indiyiduals on B Meario'.rs. 
1880. 
May 20. i About thirty on B Meadov/'s, 
25. 
June 18. 
21 
Sept. 8. 
1881. 
June 2. 
1882. 
Oct-. 8-22 
Set B-7. Fresh-shell rather thin; yolk very deep 
salmon red; nest in trie top of an old hollov/ pine stump 
near the centre of a retired, hea-Vily-v/ooded, but slamm, 
island in the S\7ea,t Gove. The nest was in a deep cavi¬ 
ty hollov/ed in tlio crumbling pieces of 'uood and v/as ■./arrri- 
ly lined v/ith the bird’s do'.vn 'vhich made a beautiful, 
dark, raised fringe about the eggs, but did not conceal 
them. Female sitting; she rose into the air directly 
from the nest vfnon I 'was about tvfonty yards away and 
.ew o; 
silence. 
Female v/itli a brood of young apparently just hatched. 
The mother s'wam off toward a grassy island, singing very 
low in tho Y/ater in the hope o i" escaping our obsorva- 
tion. The duc.klings taking ihe cue, follo’yed, crov/'ding 
closely about hor, the v/hole family presenting the ap¬ 
pearance of somo nondescript animal sv/imming. When tho 
mother saw that she ’./as discovered she flopped off along 
tho surface like a v/ouncled bird, quacking hoarsely; the 
young then s'van q’uickly into the grass \Thore we soarchod 
for tliGDi in vain although the island v/as only a few yards 
square. (Lake sliore opposite Stone Farm). 
as Robins on 
They v/ont 
Brood of nine young as ai/out as larg 
Cambridgo River a little bolo'v B Moadov/s, 
ashore before v/o roac'nod them, and after v/e passed re¬ 
turned to t .e stroarn. Tho mother was not v/ith them; 
the;/ uttered a fim pee^ peo , p ee . poep . 
About sixtj'’ feeding in a pool in the meawlow surroun¬ 
ded by tail grass. They were very noisy,quacking con¬ 
tinually , dozens often calling at the same time. Every 
little v/hile there v/as a great flapping of wings and 
splashing of v/ater as they chased one another ov^r the 
surface (Sv/eat Gove). 
Set G-7. Nest on islan.d in Iieo.nard’s Pond. 
Common, 
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