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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.