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18B1. 
Oct. 20. 
« 21 . 
1882. 
Sept,29, 
Querquedula discens. 
Middlesex County, Mass. 
A flock of throe on Concord River. They wepo very 
shy but I killed one of them. 
Pound the tv;o seen yesterday in nearly the same 
place to-day. French tells me that they appeared on 
Pairhaven Bay October 8, when there v/ere seven of them. 
In the course of a few days four vrere v/ounded, all es¬ 
caping by diving and taking to the button bushes. The 
remaining three have been seen a number of times since. 
This is a late date. 
Several hundred on Concord River in flocks ranging 
from five or six to eighty or ninty individuals ( I 
counted seventy—five in one flock). They v^ere nearly 
as shy as Black Ducks and exceedingly restless, flying 
aboutV high over the meadov/s, and often scaling off over 
the "Woods, I never saw Teal hero in such numbers before 
or found them as shy anywhere. A heavy easterly storm 
has prevailed for two days. 
