Gallinago delicata. Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1894. shining bright and warm all the time I was on the meadow and Oct. 1. there was either no wind or but a gentle breeze. Many of the (No.2). birds rose from mud flats where there was absolutely no cover. They flew with unusual swiftness, a characteristic, as I have often observed, of freshly arrived birds. They also "bunched" and went off in small compact flocks like Tringae. I do not doubt doubt that there were fully fifty-and perhaps twice as many- Snipe on the meadows to-day. Late in the afternoon I sailed across the Lake again and running the canoe into a shallow creek directly opposite Leon- ard's Pond sat there until it was nearly dark. My chief ob- ject was to find out whether the Snipe which I drove away from the marsh this morning would return at evening. They came from every direction in extraordinary numbers as soon as the twilight fell, and for fifteen or twenty minutes their scalaie call and the rushing sound of their wings were simply incess- ant. I heard one make a curious low jarring sound soon after it had alighted near me. 1895. As I was scanning the mud banks at the Outlet closely Sept. 9. passing close in shore I discovered a Wilson's Snipe standing in a crouching attitude on the bare mud. Presently he squat-