Phalaronus lobatus . 
Lake Itobagog. 
1398. While off Pine Point this forenoon we saw a Northern 
Sept.8. Phalarope starting it a number of times. It was very restless 
continually making short flights from place to place and bobb¬ 
ing on the waves like a cork. Once I saw it fly straight up¬ 
ward from the water and catch a flying insect, then alight on 
the spot where it started. I sailed my canoe past it within 
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ten or twelve feet. It called quit , quit when startled. 
Sept.9. We saw (on the Lake) two Phalaropes. One, a very large 
light-colored bird, was, I think, a Red Phalarope but it was 
so far away that I could not make sure of its identity. The 
other v/as a young L. hyperboreus . It was sitting on the water 
and I paddled the boat up to within twenty feet of it when we 
stopped and watched it for several minutes with our glasses. 
It was behaving in the most singular way turning around and 
around very rapidly dozens of times on the same spot and in 
thd same direction thrusting its bill deep down into the water 
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three or four,.during each turn and evidently getting an abun¬ 
dance of food too minute to be visible to our eyes. At length 
it saw us and stretching up its neck uttered twice a low but 
distinct scaine almost exactly like that of a Wilson's Snipe. 
Then it flew giving the usual Sanderling-like quit . quit just 
' as it left the water. It alighted again about 100 yds. off 
and began fluttering about irijcircles alternately striking and 
