Querquedula discors. Curtis Meadow, Lake Umbagog, Maine. A tame Blue-winged Teal. 1900. Sept.14. 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 water about 50 yards off and swimming to the shore climbed to the top of a mud lump where it sat dozing in the sun. I had a Reflex Camera with me and putting in a plate holder I pad- dled to a point opposite the bird and allowed the canoe to drift down towards it with the wind exposing both plates (both turned out to be light-struck and worthless) when I thought I was within good range. My best chance came a mo- ment later, however, when the bird, startled out of its slum- bers by my near approach, began walking slowly along the smooth muddy shore with head and neck erect. Before it flew I was literally within ten feet of it.