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Lake Uinbagog, Maine. 
1394. 
|0ot. I. 
(No.2). 
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shining bright and warm all the time I was on the meadow and 
there was either no wind or but a gentle breeze. Many of the 
birds rose from mud flats where there was absolutely no cover,. 
They flew with unusual swiftness, a character is bic,--aa—3H»ave 
©fttm-observe-d, of freshly arrived birds. They also "bunched 11 
and went off in small compact flocks like Tringae. i-douno-t ku wa 
doubt that- there were fully fifty-and perhaps twice as many-* 
Snipe on the meadows to-day-. 
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Late in the afternoon I sailed across the Lake again and 
running the canoe into a shallow creek directly opposite Leon» 
ard’s Pond sat there until it was nearly dark. My chief ob« 
ject was to find out whether the Snipe which I drove away from 
the marsh this- morning would return at evening. They came 
from every direction in extrordinary numbers as soon as the 
twilight fell, and for fifteen or twenty minutes their scaipe 
call and the rushing sound of their wings were simply incess*- 
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ant. I heard one make a curious low jarring sound soon after 
it had alighted nea^ me-.- 
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1895. As I was scanning the mud banks at the Outlet closely 
Sept-. 9. passing close in shore I discovered a Wilson's Snipe standing 
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in a crouching attitude on the bare mud. Presently he squat«- 
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