Tringa bairdi. Maine (Lake Umbagog). 1874. Sept. 1. Shot one on the muddy bank of the River. It rose at the report of the gun, uttering a single mellow tweet, and flying a short distance dropped dead. I noticed nothing peculiar in its actions except that it ran rather faster than most Tringas. 1880. Sept 4. Several Sandpipers accompanied by two Aegialitis semipalmata on the bar at the mouth of the Cambridge River this evening. They moved about like “Peeps” but looked considerably larger. Their backs appeared striped, and a low conversational twittering which they kept up sounded unfamiliar. While I was trying to make out what they were the flock rose; I shot into them but only killed one bird which proved to be a Baird’s Sand- piper. It was badly shot and so fat that it could not be skinned. I am positive that its companions (six in number) were all of the same species. “ 5. Shot two which were feeding in company with an Ereu- netos pusillus on a bar at the mouth of the Cambridge. They were undoubtedly the same birds seen here last night; they were very tame and on the mud looked scarce- ly larger than Least Sandpipers. When they spread their wings, however, the difference in size was at once appar- ent. Their flight was swift, erratic, in every way iden- tical with that of other small waders. Both were exceed- ingly fat.