1892. 
Gallinago delicate 
Aug. 14. 
Sept . 5 
(No. 2) 
Sept. 
Mass . 
Concord . - While sailing a little below Davis's Hill I was posi- 
tively electrified by hearing, suddenly, the sca_ip_e of a 
Wilson's Snipe thrice repeated. The next instant I saw the bird 
flying across the river about fifteen feet above the water. It 
alighted on the west bank among tall grass. I could see nothing 
moving on the meadow to the eastward whence it came but possibly 
it had been frightened by my sails or it may have been merely 
changing its feeding grounds. The time was about half-an-hour 
before sunset. If this bird was a migrant it furnishes the 
earliest date of autumn arrival which I have ever obtained. 
Concord.- Two parties of sportsmen with their dogs were beating 
the meadows in the afternoon and fired a dozen or more shots. 
On my way up river at evening I passed near one q,f these parties 
and on questioning them was informed that they had started four 
Wilson's Snipe and had shot one of these birds and a Marsh Hawk. 
Concord.- The first sound that I heard was the whistling of 
Duck's wings. Then suddenly, from directly overhead and with 
startling clearness, came the weird humming of a Snipe, and afte 
an interval of a few seconds, during which I had an oj/portunity 
to convince myself that I was really awake, the bird drummed 
again very near me and then flew about low down on the meadow 
marking its course by a succession of scaipes . The "drumming" 
was precisely like that produced by this bird in spring. I have 
Wilson' s 
Snipe. 
Wilson' s 
Snipe 
on the 
meadows. 
Snipe 
drums dr 
