Phalaropus lobatus. Lake Umbagog. ✓ 1898. While off Pine Point this forenoon we saw a Northern Sept.8. Phalarope starting it a number of times. It was very restless continually making short flights from place to place and bobbing on the waves like a cork. Once I saw it fly straight upward from the water and catch a flying insect, then alight on the spot where it started. I sailed my canoe past it within ten or twelve feet. It called quit, quit when startled. Sept.9. We saw (on the Lake) two Phalaropes. One, a very large light-colored bird, was, I think, a Red Phalarope but it was so far away that I could not make sure of its identity. The other was a young L.hyperboreus. It was sitting on the water and I paddled the boat up to within twenty feet of it when we stopped and watched it for several minutes with our glasses. It was behaving in the most singular way turning around and around very rapidly dozens of times on the same spot and in the same direction thrusting its bill deep down into the water three or four Times during each turn and evidently getting an abundance of food too minute to be visible to our eyes. At length it saw us and stretching up its neck uttered twice a low but distinct scaine almost exactly like that of a Wilson's Snipe. Then it flew giving the usual Sanderling-like quit, quit just as it left the water. It alighted again about 100 yds. off and began fluttering about incircles alternately striking and 62