Tringa maculata. Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1894. There were also a flock of seventeen Pectorals of which Oct.I. I killed four. These Sandpipers are singularly like Snipe in many of their ways. They probe in precisely the same manner and when approached remain perfectly motionless for many min- utes at a time evidently relying on their admirable protective coloring for concealment but unlike the Snipe they do not squat. Nevertheless it is extremely difficult to see them even when a dozen or more are standing in plain view. There is almost always a background of grass and the mud on these marshes is also covered with a short, exceedingly dense growth of fine grass which, at a distance, looks like vividly green moss. The Pectorals resort much to these mossy flats even when, as is nearly always the case, they are somewhat elevated and perfectly dry. The birds do not feed there, but simply bask or sleep in the sun. Pectorals are invariably very tame here but they are easily alarmed by loud sounds and the report of a gun will often start a flock in great alarm half-a-mile or more away. When thus startled the birds fly about for many minutes before realighting coursing back and forth over the marshes, now high now low, wheeling and turning sharply.