1893
Sept. 30.
Lake Umbagog, Maine.
  A sunny day with drifting cloud masses and most violent
north-west wind.
  The Lake was covered with white caps and the waves so
high that Spelman and I were tempted to try our canoes in the
rough water off the point where we sailed and paddled about
for an hour or two without further harm than a good wetting.
This was in the forenoon.
[margin]Sailing on
the Lake[/margin]
  After dinner we crossed to Moose Point where we found two
flocks of Grass Birds, a Bonaparte Sandpiper with one lot and
Semipalmated with the other. The Grass Birds avoided the marsh
to-day (although its condition has not changed) and clung close-
ly to the narrow sand beach along the outer bank although we 
fired a number of shots at them. I could not help fancying
that the waves breaking on this little beach attracted them
perhaps by reminding them of the shores of the Ocean.
Spelman killed seven Grass Birds and the Semipalmated Sandpiper
I two Grass Birds and the Bonaparte's Sandpiper. 
[margin]Moose Point
Bonaparte S
Pectorals.[/margin]
  The marshes to-day, as on our former visits, were simply
covered with chalkings which, as we could start no Snipe, I
attributed to the Grass Birds but as night was falling while we
were lying in wait for Ducks the Snipe appeared in considerable
numbers coming singly, evidently from a considerable distance
[margin]Wilson's
Snipe[/margin]