Phalaropus lobatus. Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1887. Took the steamer at about 9 A.M. and went up the Lake to Sept.4. Moll's Rock where I launched my canoe and paddled over to .the Outlet. Setting sail I ran out into the Lake before a strong, steady breeze. Not over half-a-mile from the Outlet I came upon three Northern Phalaropes bobbing about on the rough water nearly in the middle of the Lake. I shot one with each barrel, both on the water. The third flew off down wind. Following I soon began to see others singly or in twos or together as threes, and once a flock of five. They were very restless and some of them unmistakably shy rising a hundred yards or more ahead skimming close over the surface and alighting a- again. Often one would flutter upwards to a height of fifteen or twenty feet and poise for a moment at the same time shak- ing its wing and tail violently. Their usual flight was pre- cisely like that of a Sandpiper^. The only note that I heard was a short quet very like that of the Sanderling. On the water they acted precisely like those seen in the Gulf in 1881. They were evidently feeding as they swam. I got anoth- er sitting shot at two birds killing one with each barrel.