Tringa balrdii -. 
Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
189-4. Soon after dinner I took the canoe and my gun said sailed 
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Sept. 12. across to the Outlet on reaching which I skirted closely a 
space of bare but soiae-what hillocky, muddy ground where I 
have often found waders of various kinds but on which I could 
see, on this occasion, only a solitary Least Sandpiper. I 
then ran the canoe ashore and took down the sail. While I was 
thus engaged the canoe drifted back a few yards when on look¬ 
ing up I was greatly surprised to see within fifteen or twenty 
feet, and on the very ground which I had just scrutinized so 
closely, a flock of eight Sandpipers among which I at once 
Recognized two Pectorals and four Ereunetes . The remaining 
two birds had an unfamiliar look but I quickly became convince 
ed that they were Baird's Sandpipers as turned out to be the 
case. I watched the flock for at least ten mimutes before 
disturbing them. At first they all stood perfectly motionless 
regarding rue with timid suspicion, apparently, but presently 
they scattered about and began feeding. The Ereunetes ran 
nimbly from place to place showing themselves freely along 
the wateris edge. The Pectorals acted very differently, mov— 
ing at a slow walk and keeping back among the hillocks, follow¬ 
ing the depressions of the ground and crouching so low as oft¬ 
en to be hidden from my sight, but occasionally showing their 
heads and necks as they stood erect to look at me. The move- 
