Tringa bairdii 
Lahe Umbagog', Maine. 
1094. ments and the attitudes of the Baird^s Sandpipers were in 
Sept, 12. many respects about intermediate between those of the two spe** 
cies just named but, on the whole, nearest, I thought, to thosG 
of Ereunetes . 
At length getting a favorable opportunity I fired,hilling 
the two Pectorals one of the Baird* s ; and an Ereunetes. with my 
first barrel, and dropping the other Baird's and one more 
Ereunetes with the second barrel, as the survivors started off 
over the river. The remaining two birds, both Ereunetes, flew 
off down the Lahe. 
On afterwards shinning the Baird's Sandpipers I found ^ 
that both 7 ;ere females in good condition, but not nearly so 
fat as Waders usually are at this season. 
Sept. 25. Soon after we had landed on the Outlet marshes(a few hun^ 
dred yards below the Outlet on the west banh) we saw three 
Waders feeding on a mud flat at the edge of a shallow pool of 
surface water. One of them proved to be a Ring-neched Plover. 
The other two I could not mahe out to my satisfaction, although 
I studied them for many minutes through my glass at a distance 
, of about 25 yards and in a good light. I suspected that they 
were Baird's Sandpipers, but they loohed and acted surprisingly 
like Ereunetes- . They v/ere wading up to their bellies in the 
