Lake Umbagog journals, 1871-1916 (inclusive)
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L.Umbagog. 1890. Sept.24, We started and shot two Lincoln's Sparrows to-day in the hill side pasture behind Sargents. Both were in wet hollows among the same fine, dry, wild grass* in which we found some of these birds yesterday. One was alone, the other in company with a Song Sparrow Both lay very close rising under foot and flying about 100 yds. The flight of one was level and whirring- almost exactly like a Marsh Wren's. The other flew like a Song Sparrow. One sought re- age in a bunch of ferns, the other in a brush fence. Sept.25, Started one from close cropped turf in a pasture on the edge of belt of young maples into which it flew alighting in a leafy maple where it sat perfectly motionless peeping out at me past the stem until I shot it. This specimen as well as all the others shot thus far proved to be very fat.Of the five three were males, one a female and the fifth bird apparently a female.