1G8 
18(W, 
Aug, 28, 
Sept,28, 
Oct. 5. 
Anas obscura. 
Two at West Amesbury,Mass, 
Saw about two thousand (Plymouth ,Mass,). 
Barge flocks on the ocean(Plymouth, Mass.). 
Found the tracks of one leading directly into a 
muskrat’s hole on the border of a muddy pond. Probably 
the bird ha.d been wounded (Pl 3 rmouth,Mass. ). 
1868, 
Feb, 8, Numbers in the market said to have been shot at Ran¬ 
dolph,Mass . 
Juno 19, Saw one rise from a marsh in Warren,Mass. 
1870. 
July 11, 
Aug, 5, 
Sopt,2-lp, 
One (Ipsv7ich,Mass. ). 
One on Profile Lake,N,H, 
Nearly every pond about the Porks of the Kennebec 
Maine, held one or two flocks reared in tlie vicinity. 
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1875. 
Sept,23. They are said to v/inter in large numbers at Nantuck¬ 
et spending their entire time on the sea and feeding on 
the flats. 
* 27. Started sixteen from a fresh water pool not over 
ten yards square on the shore of Hummock Pond. Con¬ 
cealing ourselves v/e awaited their return. Shortly af¬ 
ter Eunsel; three Ducks passed us but the flocks did not 
come back. The sunset was superb and greatly enhanced 
by the fine view up the pond and out over the foam-flock¬ 
ed ocean, \7ith picturesque sandhills looming up ags,inst 
the rose-tinted sky. (Nantucket), 
1876. 
Apr, 12.i A pair feeding among sea weeds on a rocky reef 
near Point Lepreaux,N.B. 
Rye Beach , New Hampshire 
1868, 
Aug, 16. 
Saw four ojr. the Eel Pond, 
they brood in fresh water moadows 
The gunners say that 
in this vicinity. 
1871, 
July 
30. 
Saw one and 
vreeks ago. 
am told that they v/ere 
seen here throe 
Aug. 
4. : 
Sav/ two, probably resident birds. 
tt 
9, 
Tv/o flocks, 
came in from the 
one of six, the other 
sea and passed out to 
of three birds, 
the south. They 
