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Phalaropus lobatus.
Lake Umbagog.
1898. rising just above the surface for all the world like a big
Sept. 9. moth, occasionally rising straight upward to a height of sev-
(No.2). eral feet and apparently catching some flying insect. Verily
the Northern Phalarope is an erratic little fellow.