1894
Sept. 25
Lake Umbagog, Maine.
Outlet Marshes.
  Another wild day of north-west wind and driving cloud
masses alternating with brief periods of sunshine & occasional
light showers. Still cold. Ther. 40 [degrees] at 9 P.M.
  Soon after breakfast Will returned from Upton where he had
spent the night & reported seeing two Yellow-legs and a large
flock of Grass Birds on the Cambridge River marshes. Thinking
that there might also be birds on the Outlet marshes Jim
& I rowed over there at once! Soon after we had
landed (a few hundred yards below the Outlet on the west banks)
we saw three waders feeding on a mud flat at the edge
of a shallow pool of surface water. One of them proved to be
a Ring-necked Plover. The other two I could not make out
to my satisfaction although I studied them for many
minutes through my glass at a distance of about 25 yards &
in a good light. I suspect that they were Baird's
Sandpipers but they looked and acted surprisingly like
Ereunetes. They were wading up to their bellies in the water
& probing the soft mud most assiduously. At times they
would walk about slowly & sedately like Pectorals, then
run briskly two & fro exactly like "Peeps". The longer I
watched them the stronger became my impression that
they were Ereunetes but still their breasts looked too brown
and their size too large. Finally getting them together I
shot them both, not without strong reluctance, but to my
delight they proved to be really Tringa bairdii, a young [male]
and an old female. On skinning them I found them 
to be in good condition but not so fat as waders usually
are at this season.
[margin]Tringa bairdii[/margin]
  The report of the gun started up two large Plover, a