Totanus melanoleueus. 
107 
|| Maine (Lake Umbagog ). 
1874. 
Sopt.17. At the Peaks of the Diamond River one of these birds 
passed overhead, flying high above the v^oods, and call- 
1880. 
Sept. 5, 
13. 
ing .loudly. 
May 31. : One circling about near the house v/histling loud- 
ii ly. 
16. 
1882. 
Oct.8-22 
1883. !■ 
Oct. 17. : 
One feeding in company with four Tetanus flavines . 
Up to this time I have seen onljr one. The hunters 
say that they do not appear in any numbers till late in 
October. Sometime after tb.e lake is frozor they pass 
over it in immense numbers. Such a fligh’t occurred last 
year, great flocks passing at intervals during the wliole 
day. One observer assured mo that he saw at least a 
thousand. 
A flock of four alighted in the shallow v/ator near 
the Outlet. They ’vere very ta.rae and T killed tbem 
all. 
One or tv/o seen daily. .Last o served October 17. 
Shot one on the meado'w. 
