Melospiza lincolni. 1889, Lake Umbagog. September II. Sargent's clearing. I shot at a Blue Jay flying. Going to the place I sent Don in to look for it when he started a Lincoln's Finch. It flew up into a bush when I recognized it at once. Before I could get in the auxiliary it descended to the ground again. Failing to start it I supposed it had moved on and hunted the woods on every side. Finally I returned and found it in the very spot whence it started first. It fell a victim to my new auxiliary in the 20 g. 1890, Lake Umbagog. September 23. copy v Drive from Lakeside. We next skirted the edge of a great hillside pasture seeing a great number of Sparrows among which were two Lincoln's Finches. Both were flushed from fine dry grass in wet hollows. One flew into some bushes where I shot it, the other escaped into thick spruces and was seen no more... The report of the gun (H.W.Henshaw had fired at a Flicker) started a Sparrow which flew about 100 yds. very much in the manner of a Savanna Sparrow and a- lighted in the short grass in a mowing field. Upon going to the spot I flushed it and I saw at once that it was a Lincoln's Finch and finally shot it in a brush fence in which it finally took refuge. As I was wrapping it up Don started another from a bunch of grass near me but it made a long flight and escaped.