L. Umbagog. 1890. copy 6 Melospiza lincolni. On the intervale between Lakeside Hotel and the Lake shore are Sept.30 two patches of cultivated ground which owing to neglect, are now densely covered with tall weeds, which, ever since my arrival, have been thronged with Sparrows, chiefly Song & Swamp Sparrows with a few White-throats and Chippies and an occasional Savannah. I have beaten these places repeatedly for Lincoln's Finches but have found none until this morning when I saw at least seven, four of which I shot. All of them started from the weeds well out in the field and flew to the bushes and brush heaps along the border of the woods. I had no difficulty in distinguishing them from the Song Sparrows. and Swamp They lay closer than either and both sitting and flying looked smaller and slenderer. Their flight was peculiar and characteristic very level, direct & rather swift yet feeble and whirring, like that of a Marsh Wren. On reaching the bushes they would at once dis- appear but I found it easy to call them out again by making a low screeping sound. When in the bushes they seem to be less active than the other Sparrows and addicted to sitting perfectly still for several minutes at a time. When alarmed or suspicious, however, they would jerk their tails up and sideways much in the manner of a Goathlypis. During the entire forenoon I did not once hear any of them make any sound whatever. There were ten or twelve White- crowned Sparrows with them. Of those shot three were males, one a female. All were excess- ively fat. 64