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Querquedula discors.
Curtis Meadow, Lake Umbagog, Maine. A tame Blue-winged Teal.
1900.
Sept. I4. We (the Stones and I) had finished photographing and were about to leave the pond when a Blue-winged Teal darted past me about on a level with my head and so near that I in- stinctively struck at it with my paddle. It alighted in the off and swimming to the shore climbed to here it sat dozing in the sun. I had and putting in a plate holder I pad- e the bird and allowed the canoe to th the wind exposing both plates light-struck and worthless) when I od range. My best chance came a mo- en the bird, startled out of its slum- , began walking slowly along the head and neck erect. Before it flew en feet of it.
Blue winged Teal -
Sept 9' Oullet
1873 14 (5) Baker Horns Pond
1874 " 3 (8) South from Second P.
1880 " 8 (9) W. A. J. Grant Jet.
" " 14 (6) (46) (16) Comb. R. woods
" " 15- (45) " " ?
" " 16 (4) at Oullet very shy
" " 18 (4) Comb. River woods
" " / (2) (1) Sargent Center
1887 " /
1888 " 15- (3) Comb. From Bay begun all about
1889 " 23 (15) Nuttall's Pond.
1893 " 19 (9) 20 (3) Oullet woods
1894 " 5- (7) Grant Jet, Can
" 10 (13) Oullet -
1895- " / 2 (6) Oullet & Second Pond.
" " 5-24-87
" 18 (3) Oullet / Sargent's ? Hook (8)
" " 2 3/1 June Point Comb. R.
1896 " 5' Oullet
" 2 3 (5 3) & Hort Park on Myallaway
1900 " 14 ' Cook's M.
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