Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
Melosuiza llnoolnii 
1897 
'y^we (Purdie, Will and I) kept on pretty steadily up the 
Sept.15. Megailoway , stopping once or twice to take a photograph, 
however, and turning into Pine Hill Pond when we reached that 
pretty little sheet of water. I was adjusting my camera for 
a picture when I heard the Junco-like tsup of a Lincoln's 
Pinch and presently saw the bird flitting about among some 
bushes on a narrow point. It was presently joined by two more 
one of which came flying across the pond. All three chirped 
excitedly for several minutes. They were evidently alarmed at 
something but just what it was we did not discover. After I 
had taken my picture we rowed around the point and Gilbert 
landing beat it towards us. He started all three birds and I 
shot one of them but ruined it for a specimen, having no shot 
smaller than #10 with me. I had a good view of the other two 
birds and identified them beyond any question. They behaved 
in the usual manner lying close and skulking about under 
fallen logs and tops. The place was very wet with long, wiry 
grass growing in the open spaces 
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