1890, 
September 24. 
Melosniza linoolni . 
Lake Umbagog. 
Started two Lincoln's Pinches from fine dry grass in a 
wet hollow in Sargent's plantation. H (enshaw) killed one flying. 
I the other in a brush fence where it sought shelter. 
September 25. Lake Unbagog. 
Pearlev White's . 
I killed a beautiful Lincoln's Pinch here. It started 
from the ground in a pasture on the edge of a strip of maples in 
one of which it alighted sitting perfectly still until I killed it. 
September 50. 
Lake Umbagog. 
Lakeside. 
I had intended to spend the day in packing but seeing a 
large number of Sparrows in a patch of weeds on the intervale in 
the front of the house I took my gun immediately after breakfast, 
and went down to have a look at them. One of the first that I 
started was a fine adult White-crowned Sparrow which I shot in a 
brush pile but could not find. Soon after this^I beat the weeds 
the weeds carefully many times in succession, driving the Sparrows 
from them to the bushes along the fences and by the lake shore 
where I could inspect them with comparative ease. Identified posi¬ 
tively seven Lincoln Pinches of which I shot four, and ten White- 
crowned Sparrows of which I killed one. All but two of the White- 
crowns vvere young birds. One of them sang a confused but very 
Song 
sweet warbling strain not unlike that of a young Sparrow. I could 
have shot most of these young White-crowned Sparrows easily enough 
had I wished to do so, but the old birds were shy. 
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