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Published by the Society on the first of March, June, September and December 



Vol. X SEPTEMBER, 1908 No. 3 



Sambo. 



B\- Ora Wii^r.is Knight, Bangor. 



We called him Sambo, but if you were to seek for him in the 

 pages of the A. O. U. Check-Iyist you would be obliged to look for 

 No. 366, where you would find him posing as Asw wilsonianus. 



My acquaintanceship with Sambo was made under very unaus- 

 picious circumstances so far as he was concerned, while as far as I 

 was concerned it was rather a matter of obtaining goods under false 

 pretenses. At least Sambo pretended to be a Grouse, and under 

 these pretenses I sacrificed a charge of powder and shot, to find that 

 in return, instead of a Partridge, the bag was "only an Owl". Later 

 on, however, it proved to be a very satisfactory mistake as far as I 

 was concerned, and now for the story. 



Late one fall, I was out hunting Partridge. The sun had 

 already declined far in the west without the day yielding anything 

 more satisfactory than the sound of a few whirring wings and a 

 scanty glimpse of several wary birds which invariably flew straight 

 "into the sun" with one to several dense trees between us. Snap 

 shots under these conditions had so far failed to result in responding 

 thuds and sought-for results. Consequently, about discouraged, I 



