1089, 
September II. 
Melospiza lincolni. 
Lake Umbagog. 
Sargent 1 s clearing . 
I shot at a Biud Jay flying. Going to the place I sent 
Don in to look for it when he started a Lincoln's Finch. It flew 
up into a bush when I recognized it at once. Before I could get 
in the auxilTiary it descended to the ground again. Failing to 
start it I supposed it had moved on and hunted the woods on e/ery 
side. Finally I returned and found it in the very spot whence it 
started first. It fell a victim to my new auxiliary in the 20 g. 
1890, 
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Lake Umbagog. 
Drive fr om Lakeside, 
We next skirted the edge of a great hillside pasture 
seeing a great number of Sparrows among which were two Lincoln's 
Finches. Both were flushed from fine dry grass in wet hollows. 
One flew into some bushes where I shot it, the other escaped into 
thick spruces and was seen no more. . . The report of the gun 
(H.W.Henshaw had fired at a Flicker) started a Sparrow which flew 
about 100 yds. very much in the manner of a Savanna Sparrow and a- 
lighted in the short grass in a mowing field. Upon going to the 
spot I flushed it and I saw at once that it was a Lincoln's Finch 
and finally shot it in a brush fence in which it finally took 
refuge. As I was wrapping it up Don started another from a bunch 
of grass near me but it made a long flight and escaped. 
