Pine Point, Lake Umbagog, Maine.
1894.
Sept. 4.
  Another day of dense, smokey haze and light southerly
winds, very warm in the afternoon. We expected C. and E.R.S.
to-day and I sent Will on the steamer to Errol to meet them,
sailing across myself to Leonard's Pond, but when the steamer
came they were not on board.
  While waiting I saw a flock of 15 Lesser Yellow-legs
accompanied by some smaller wader rise from the marshes and
after circling and wheeling high in the air pitch down again
in the same place. So that I sent word by Will to have Jim
bring my hunting boat, gun, wading boots and the little span-
iel. When he arrived I waded across the flats (which were
covered by about 2 inches of water) and getting three of the
Yellow-legs together, shot them with the second as the flock rose.
There was also a [delete]nother[/delete] large flock of Ereunetes, among which
were four or five birds of about the size and general appear-
ance of Grass Birds, but with a different call, a peculiar half'
mellow, half squeaky note. I suspect that they were Baird's
Sandpipers.
[margin]Lesser Yellow-legs[/margin]
[margin]Baird's (?)
Sandpipers[/margin]
  After finishing with the Yellow-legs (one of the wing-
broken ones got into the grass and escaped) Ireturned [sic] to the
boat and getting the [delete]little[/delete] spaniel spent an hour or more
beating the marsh. The little dog went to work at once and
[margin]Snipe Shooting over the black
spaniel Hadji[/margin]