(5) Oidemia americana. 1889. Maine. L. Umbagog. I have never seen one dive excepting when wounded. In short it is evident that they alight merely to rest for a day before ac- complishing the final stage of their journaey to the sea. They appear much oftner during clear than stormy weather, and the Lake is doubtless one of the regular stopping places in an established path of migration. These observations, however, do not apply to wounded birds of which a number escape the hunters and remain in the lake until their wings are healed or until the water freezes and they perish. Such wounded birds are often seen near shore about rocky points or even along the edge of the marsh grass which lines the deeper coves. They evidently try to obtain food both in this sedge and by diving in shallow water, but I doubt if they succeed, for sev- eral which I killed this autumn after seeing them in certain plac- es daily for a week or two at a time proved to be much emaciated and their crops and stomachs contained nothing but a little grav- el. A wounded Scoter is not ordinarily a difficult bird to se- cure if the surface of the Lake is calm, for it does not go as far under water or double as often as many of the other diving Ducks, while upon coming to the surface it always shows the en- tire head and usually most of the neck also, as well as frequent- ly portions of the back. If the water is rough, however, it fre- quently escapes. I have several times seen a young bird make very protracted dives in deep water remaining under for nearly a min- ite at a time, but coming up in almost precisely the same spot. On one such occasion the bird after being nearly caught seemed to suddenly learn wisdom by experience, for it changed its tactics and by a succession of long horizontal dives gave us a chase of fully a mile, but it was finally killed. A wounded bird coming to the surface after a long dive usually makes a rather loud gasping sound as it takes in air for a fresh dive.