1873. I 
July - 20., 
1880. 
.qnn + 
pt. 5. 
12 . 
Ereunotos pusillus. 
Maine (Lake Umbagog). 
Savr three, iclentifieation positive, 
This species eonstituted the greater portion of a 
flock of about twenty-five small v/aders, feeding on a 
mud-bar in Sargent’s Gove. 
Eighteen in company v/ith tv/o Tringa minutill a on the 
bar at the mouth of the Cambridge. They vrere surpri- 
singly tamaxlov/ing us to pa,ddle the canoe ’vithin ten 
feet of them. They fed chiefly in the shallovf water* 
thrusting their heads beneath tlie surface ai-d bringing 
up masses of -,/ater vneods from which they disengaged small 
|)artieles of food. Occasionally they bored the soft 
mud like Snipe, thrusting their bills dovm to the very 
base. I find that most of the Tringae do this and por- 
naps all the Scolopacidao. With the present species 
the motion differs slightly from that of the Snipe be¬ 
ing less rapid and decided while the bill is often’work¬ 
ed up and dovm in the sane spot . At least one indi¬ 
vidual in one flock o “Peeps” is pretty sure to be minus 
a leg; there w/as one such unfortunate in this flock but 
although only the stump of his log was left he seemed 
to get along very 
sound member. 
;11 
hopping nimbly about on the 
14. Large numbers on the bar at the mouth of th« Ca-v- 
; bridge. 
imrnoiiso flock feeding on the bar at the mouth of 
> tne Cambridge. 
I' 
It 
m . A flock on the bar at the mouth of the Garnbr-idge 
River in company v./'ith Ring-necks. 
