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Aix sponsa. 
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1873. 
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Maine (Lake Umbagog). 
Aug. 12. 
Shot one on Cambridge River about tv/o mi-les above 
the dam. 
“ 14. 
Shot a young bird fully grown, but without v/ing- 
foathers, on Cambridge i\ivor. 
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Shot three on Cambridge River. I think they vnero 
all adult males, judging by the apperwarico and color of 
their bills and feot. Their plumage, ho-.'over, Y/as near- 
ly liko that of tlie young rnalo at this soason. 
1874. ! 
Sept. 15*. 
At the head of 
...e (- ' Sturtevant Pond v/e started tvm.) from he inl^t. 
As they circled past us out of range they occasionally 
twitched their hoar's violeritly, a nd once or twice nearly 
stopped in tho air, at the same time shaking ":hems elves. 
I have seoi:. this before. 
1880. 
May 18. 
A female flying about among the stubs evidently had 
a nest in ho vicinity, for she frequently came overhead 
shov/ing much anxiety, and reit rating her shrill: 
dark. We saw a pair in the same spot yesterday. 
“ 21. 
Set A-10 . Fresh—nest in hole in small live elm; 
standing in v/ater at'out tv/onty yards from shore; Iieight 
about twelve feel; Most not mo-e than fifteen inches 
below tho entrance; tho cavity descoa.ding nearly verti¬ 
cally. Wo rapped sharply on the- tree irithout starting 
the sitting bird. Upon beginiiing to climb it, hovraver, 
she eam.o out with groat haste, flow off in siloL.co and 
Y/as not again soon. The eggs wore so perfectlj'' cbVerod 
v/ith the birds dov/Ta that non one cou'l d bo seen. 
June 23. 
Three or four • on Ga,nbridge River above tho dam. 
A young male wliicli I killed v/as in nearly the plumage of 
the feiiale. It v;a.s shot through the head and as wo 
approachod, repoatodly loapod oi.tiroly cloar of tho v/a- 
tor (sovural foot d eop), using its feot alone. 
1881. 
May 23.', Sot B-7. Fresh. Most in hollov/ rod ’•’’aplo. Tho 
; entrance holo was a lor.g wide slit, much larger than 
Ij that of any duck’s nest that I have over previously 
i| found. It \7as not over five feot above the v/ator and as 
the hollov.' descended nestrly two feot tho bottom was v ^jry 
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nearly doY/Tu to high water mark. The iggs v/ere laid on 
rotton v/ood but, as usual, vz-ero carefully cov-^red vzi th 
doYzn. and when 1 looked in I cou.ld onlv see one of tliom. 
|j Tho female v/as sn'imining among tho drift wood /.dthin fif- 
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ty yards of the spot but the eggs vzero cold. We started 
I a male about a hundred yards from his mate. Ho flovz a 
; fov/ rods aid rising rapidly alighted on a horizontal 
! branch of a birch stub where he sat for some time watch- 
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