1873. 
115 
Rhyaeophilus solitarius. 
ii Maine (Lake Unibagog ). 
July 20 
Aug. 2, 
high. 
Sav/ one alight on the top oT a stub fiPteen foot 
Pound thorn abundar:.t on the Mogallovray ar^d Andros¬ 
coggin a doson ofton starting at once from the shore. 
As tho steamer ad7a;-cod driving thorn on before, tho air 
became literally full of them. 
Extrerneljr abunciant ori t.]io Androscoggin arid Megallo- 
v/ay Rivers; somotirnes upwards of a hundrod vroul d be seen 
in one milo. 
j! 
23. „ Shot one on Ca: bridge River about tv/o miles above tho 
Ii dam. 
'^hey aro not re arly es abundar-t as they woro in July. 
Sept'. 3. ■: They seem^ to have all gone; I saw tho last August 30. 
■ Although this bird sooms to have loft Lake Umbaf^og 
^ I found it numerous to-day around ttio sl^oros of Kiohiardl 
. soil Lake. 
" 18. Heard orie to-day. 
22. || Sav/ one on Cambridge River. 
1874. 
July 24. 
1879. 
hay 29. 
Sa-.r oen at Bryant’s Pond. 
A single bird ar-.d one pair or> B IToadov/s. The lat- 
|i ter I tiiiiik vrero unqeestionably mated, and may breed 
il there; they wore soon in the same place both going and 
:: returning. 
1880. 
20. i Literally in swarms on B Meadows. As we drove they 
i;kGpt collecting till as many as six or eight often sat 
together^. In tho still air their v/ings rustled audi- 
,bly as they flew. Plight eccentric; when high in air 
they resemble ^Vinson’s Snipe, and like that bird nrobe 
the mud v/hon feeding. ’ ' 
22 . 
A few on B Meadowa, but not nearly as many as vrero 
seen there on tho 20thi. 
^',1 Abundant along the river baiHc. They aro tho tamest 
|j ^ There wore five to-day, scattered along 
i| the little creek a yard or two apart, and I flushed and 
- killed them all one by one; they v^ould almost allow me 
■! to catch them and tho report of a gun fired within ten 
I yards failed to even startle them. 
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