Anas obscura. Maine (Lake Umbagog). 1872. June 9. Saw one flock of sixteen and another of eighteen on B Meadows. Gideon Stone tells me that they were the old drakes which always band together after the females begin incubating. 1874. Sept. 1. Shot a pair; one of which was apparently perfectly blind in both eyes, the pupil being opaque and white. 1879. May 20. Two flocks (one containing twenty birds) and many single individuals on B Meadows. 1880. May 20. About thirty on B Meadows. " 25. Set B-7. Fresh-shell rather thin; yolk very deep salmon red; nest in the top of an old hollow pine stump near the centre of a retired, heavily-wooded, but alarm, island in the Sweat Cove. The nest was in a deep cavi- ty hollowed in the crumbling pieces of wood and was warm- ly lined with the bird's down which made a beautiful, dark, raised fringe about the eggs, but did not conceal them. Female sitting; she rose into the air directly from the nest when I was about twenty yards away and flew off in silence. June 18. Female with a brood of young apparently just hatched. The mother swam off toward a grassy island, singing very low in the water in the hope of escaping our observa- tion. The ducklings taking the cue, followed, crowding closely about her, the whole family presenting the ap- pearance of some nondescript animal swimming. When the mother saw that she was discovered she flopped off along the surface like a wounded bird, quacking hoarsely; the young then swam quickly into the grass where we searched for them in vain although the island was only a few yards square. (Lake shore opposite Stone Farm). 21. Brood of nine young as about as large as Robins on Cambridge River a little below B Meadows. They went ashore before we reached them, and after we passed re- turned to the stream. The mother was not with them; they uttered a fine peo- peo, peo, peep.