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Scolecopbagns ferrugineus.
Maine (Lake Umbagog).
1871.
May 30-
June 10. Soan frequently.
1872
June 4. A female shot on Cambridge River was incubating.
1873.
Aug. 8. A female shot on Cambridge River was incubating.
1874.
July 30. I see a few daily, but think the Red-wings and Crow
Blackbirds must have left before my arrival.
1876.
June 9. A pair among the stubs near the mouth of Rapid River.
1880.
June 1. Saw one on the Mogalloway, near its mouth.
1881.
May 20. A pair feeding among drift-wood near the mouth of
the Mogalloway. I shot the male whose plumage had a
beautiful greenish lustre.
1882.
Oct.6-22 During the first week we daily saw immense flocks--
often of several hundred indivi duals--on the marshes,
where they fed on the mud-flats left by the falling wa-
ters of the bank. After the 15th their numbers dimin-
ished. We also saw small companies along the wooded
banks of Cambridge River, and sometimes in spruces on
the high lands away from water.
1879.
June 4. One on Cambridge River above the dam. Another by
the Lake shore.
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