flailinaao delicata . 
Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
Evening at Moose Point. 
1900. 
Sept.8. 
together. A few minutes later one of them returned and alight 
ed near me, making the usual loud rustle of wings as it de¬ 
scended or, to be more precise, as it checked its speed at 
the end of the descent. 
Lake- Umbagog, Maine. Trip up Cambridge River. 
1900. The Snipe was standing on a sandy bank sparsely covered 
Sent.21. with short green grass. He was evidently sunning himself and 
ever y now and then he closed his eyes and took a brief nap. 
Jim paddled me thrice to within eight feet of him and I ex¬ 
posed three plates at him. He paid little attention to us at 
first, but as we were returning from the third trip to the 
shelter of a bank where I changed my plate holders he sudden¬ 
ly took alarm, flew across the river, ran up under a shelv¬ 
ing bank and squatted there. After this he kept well ahead 
of us flying, skulking under overhanging banks and tufts of 
grass and finally taking a long flight out of our sight through 
the woods. While I was photographing him he squatted once 
for a’moment but most of the time stood in much the same 
attitude as a Sandpiper. 
