Charitonetta albeola. 1889, October 22. Lake Umbagog. Pine Point. While waiting for breakfast saw a fine adult male Buffle- head floating on the calm surface of the Lake opposite our camp. Jim paddled me out but just before we started two Whistlers joined our bird and of course started him long before we were within gun range. Just after breakfast a pair of Buffle-heads, the male a superb adult and perhaps the same just mentioned, alighted in the cove just north of camp. I went over land to the water's edge but they swam across to the Moll's Rock shore and began diving there. Accordingly I returned and Jim paddled me across the mouth of the cove. Landing just inside the Rock I went through the woods and by making three runs when the birds were under water got within good range. I fired as they swam together, killing the adult male. a gun δ, The other bird dove, quite by chance, just as I pressed the trig- ger and I had to fire the other barrel at her after she came to the surface.