Anas obscura. Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1897. moon which was perhaps an hour high in the eastern sky. It Sept.11. was a picture I shall not soon forget. One by one, to the (No.2). number of a dozen or more, the stately, long-necked birds crossed this shining path and were at once lost to sight in the obscurity that walled it in on both sides. A few minutes later we followed them but before we could get them again in- to the moonlight they saw or heard us and rose with a prodig- ious rush of wings. I sent a charge of shot after them quite at random but without result. The report did not seem to dis- turb any of the other Ducks for we heard them quacking and splashing in several directions a minute or two later, and tried to paddle up again to some of them but without success. Lake Umbagog, Maine. Evening at Moose Point. 1900. The flight of Ducks was much less to-night than last Sept.8. night, only about 20 or 25 appearing. Of these three were Hooded Mergansers and one a Wood Duck, all the others being Black Ducks. All of the last-named came from the eastward. It was interesting to see them reconnoitre the ground before alighting. Most of the flocks would fly over or around the entire marsh from two to four times, at first at a height be- yond shot gun range, then lower, finally only 15 or 20 feet above the grass. It is this habit of theirs which gives us our shots at Moose Point, for if they were wise enough to