Gallinago delicata . 
Lake Umbagog. 
September 24. 
In the alder-unbowered reaches at the head of the (3.) 
.meadows a Snipe started from the bank. I fired large shot at it 
and missed. It alighted on the mud a short distance ahead and 
crouched behind a tussock. 
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September 26. 
Lumen's keen, eyes detected the Snipe (on B meadows) as 
he skulked behind a tussock on the edge of the water. We paddled 
to within ten yards of him but he remained perfectly motionless, 
squatting on the mud his. bill slightly raised, his large eyes 
glistening in the light. Finally I clapped my hands and he rose 
dropping dead in the meadow grass at my shot. 
1888 , 
October 6. 
Head of Lake Umbagog. 
When the Scaup Bucks rose a Snipe also started near us 
and I shot it. Afterward saw three at Moose Point. They rose 
from the grass where the water was a foot deep. 
1893, Lake Umbagog. 
September 30. At the Outlet of Lake 
The marshes to-day, as on our former visits, were simply 
covered with chalkings which, as we could start no Snipe, I at¬ 
tributed 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 
and from every direction, circling over the marsh at a great height 
and then shooting down nearly vertically on half closed wings. 
