Clangula clangula americana. 1896, Lake Umbagog. August 10. Cambridge River marshes. (2) haunts. Would that they might be permitted to stay unmolested through the autumn as well as the summer! But alas! in a few short weeks the slaughter will begin. August 12. Lake Umbagog. Cambridge River marshes. Peculiar behavior. A Whistler was playing about on the calm water within 100 yards or less, swimming very rapidly to and fro in zig-zag lines with outstretched head and neck, apparently gathering food from the surface and acting very like a Phalarope. (He did not once dive). September 5. Lake Umbagog. Near the Outlet. A little after this I shot a young Whistler that was swimming out in the lake. It dove as I approached, but I traced its course under water by the leaping of the young pickerel and killed it when it came to the surface. It was fully grown, but the wing quills were not of full length.