Anas obscura Main (L. Umbagog) 1888 Anas obscura Manner of rising when not startled Oct. 10 Saw three Black Ducks rise of their own accord & without being startled. They did not spring upwards as usual but merely raised themselves out of water & flowed off down a pond rising so gradually that at 500 yds. from the starting place they were only about 20 ft. high. Main (L. Umbagog) 1888 Anas obscura Possible explanation of occasional tame birds & birds with white markings. October During this month shot two Black Ducks with white on the nape. Also shot a single bird which, although certainly not wounded, allowed us to row nearly within 20 yds. before flying. A gunner who shoots our decoys in Summer, Me., tells me that nearly every year he loses one or two decoys which fly off with the wild birds; this decoy is bred about 3/4 A. obscura 1/4 tame ducks. Some of them are marked with Anas obscura. 1899. Oxford Co., Me. Oct. I three, Lake Umbagog. W.B. wet/7 upon me, Alva Carlisle. no date. [2557] 7-1 egs, Megalloway River, N.H., inc. Bought [sic] of a "native" May, 1876.