(Continued) Gallinago wilsoni. 1890. Maine.. L. Umbagog; - Oct. 8, utter a low purring sound which was usually answered by most of the birds in the vicinity and sometimes by those on the opposite of the pond. This sound which I have never heard before was evidently a call-note. Although very different from the ordinary flight note (scaipe) it appeared to be really a modification of that note the latter uttered in a low, measured, somewhat drawling tone. Its tone was curiously subdued or muffled as if the bird's mouth was full of something and often it was difficult to tell from whence the sound came. As our boat approached these feeding Snipe they would stand erect, stretch up their necks to their utmost height look- ing at a distance very like a Plover, then at a given signal take wing all at once long before we were within gun-range. By using great caution we paddled to within less than twenty feet of a single bird and which I watched through my glass at this dis- tance for over half an hour. Although it was feeding busily during the whole of this time it did not cover a color space of more than ten yards. In fact it spent most of the time on three small spots each of which it explored with the utmost thoroughness often probing the ground a hundred times or more before taking another step. Where the mud was rather hard and not covered with water it fed much in the manner of a Sandpiper rarely driving its bill in, more than half an inch and often picking up morsels from the surface the head bobbing up and down much like that of a Spar- row's when engaged in picking up seeds and so rapidly that I found it impossible to count the number of motions per minute. 97