galop columbarius 
Lake Umbagog, Maine. Stooped at a Solitary Sandpiper. 
1397. Early in the forenoon a Pigeon Hawk alighted in the old 
Sept.30. elm at the foot of the rapids below the mill sitting erect and 
motionless save for its head which it moved continually from 
side to side and occasionally bobbed up and down after the 
manner of an Owl. At length it started and shimmed off over 
the river and marsh down into Stony Brook Cove where it 
stooped at a Solitary Sandpiper, It must have missed its aim 
for the Sandpiper after plunging headlong into the water rose 
high over the trees and flew off uttering its shrill call in¬ 
cessantly. I did not actually see the Hawk attack it but that 
it did so is beyond question. 
