Tringa bairdi. 
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ji Maine (Lake Umbagog ). 
1B74. 
Sept. 1. Shot one on the muddy bank of the River. It rose 
j, at tlio report of the gun , uttering a single mellov/ 
I tv/'eot and flying a short distance dropped dead. I 
noticed nothing peculiar in its actions .except that it 
Iran rather faster that most Tringae . 
1880. i| 
Sept 4. ' Several Sandpipers a,ccompa,niod by two .Aegiali tis. 
! semipalnata on the bar at the mouth of the Cambridge 
\ River this evening. They moved about like “Peeps'’ but 
I looked consi(iorably larger. Their backes appeared 
striped, and a lov/ conversational tvattoring vdiicli they 
I! kept up sounded unfamiliar. While I '.ras trying to r!a,ko 
out vAat they wore the flock rose; I shot into them but 
■ only killed one bird which proved to be a Baird’s Sand- 
I piper. It vms badly shoand so fat that it corld not 
! be skinned. I am positive that its companions (six in 
j number) v/ero all of the same species. 
Shot tv/o \/hich were feeding in eo mpany with an Srou- 
i notes .pusillus on a bar at the m.outh of the Cambridge. 
I They v/'oro urjidoubtedly the same birds soon hero last 
i night,. they \Y9rG very tamo and on the mud looked scasco- 
ii ly larger than Least Sandpipers. When they seread their 
I vangs, hov/e mer, the difference in size was at once appar¬ 
ent. Their flight v/as S'vift, erratic, in every ay ider<- 
tical witn uha u oi other small v/adors. Both v/’oro exc.eed — 
ingly f'at. 
