Phalaronus lobatus . 
Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
1887. Took the steamer at about 9 A.M. and went up the Lake to 
Sept.4. Moll's Rock where I launched my canoe and paddled over to the 
Outlet. Setting sail I ran out into the Lake before a strong, 
steady breeze. Not over half-a-mile from the Outlet I came 
upon three Northern Phalaropes bobbing about on the rough 
water nearly in the middle of the Lake. I shot one with each 
barrel, both on the water. The third flew off down wind. 
Following I soon began to see others singly or in twos or 
Chx. 
threes, and once aflock of five. They, were very restless 
and some af-them unmistakeably shy rising a hundred yards or 
more ahead skimming close over the surface and alighting a- 
again. Often one would flutter upwards to a height of fifteen 
or twenty feet and poise for a moment at the same time shak¬ 
ing its wing and tail violently. Their usual flight was pre¬ 
cisely like that of 'a. Sandpiper*. The only note that I heard 
was a short quet very like that of the Sanderling. On the 
water they acted precisely like those seen in the Gulf in 
1881. They were evidently feeding as they swam. I got anoth¬ 
er sitting shot at two birds killing one with each barrel. 
