L. Umbagog 1890. Sept.23, copley 4 Melospira lincolni. In a single clearing about two miles from Errol & four from Lakeside H. and I positively identified four Lincoln's Sparrows and thought we saw two more. All were started in wet grassy places 100 yards or more from any trees or bushes. The first flew into a thicket on the edge of the woods where it joined a large flock of other Sparrows. We screeped a little when it came out & I shot it. The second rose from tall dried grass in a marshy hollow and took a long flight into some dense spruces where we failed to find it again. Both of these were in a back pasture on a steep hillside. The next two were in a low lying and very wet intervale. One flush- ed at 20 yards and flew nearly 50 yds. alighting again in short grass It rose again as I approached and sought refuge in some bushes along a fence where I shot it. The fourth was flushed by my pointer from a tuft of dead grass in a wet run. It lay very close rising within two feet of his nose and taking a long flight to the woods. Two of these birds flew very like Wrens, close to the ground, perfectly straight, with whirring wing beats. The third flew more like a Song Sparrow; while the flight of the fourth was so undulating & erratic that we mistook the bird at first for a Savannah Sparrow. All four were alone when first started and all were silent. 62