Tringa bairdii. Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1894. ments and the attitudes of the Bairds Sandpipers were in Sept. 12. many respects about intermediate between those of the two spe= cies just named but, on the whole, nearest, I thought, to those of Ereunetes. At length getting a favorable opportunity I fired, killing the two Pectorals, one of the Baird's, and an Ereunetes with my first barrel, and dropping the other Baird's and one more Ereunetes with the second barrel, as the survivors started off over the river. The remaining two birds, both Ereunetes, flew off down the Lake. On afterwards skinning the Baird's Sandpipers I found that both were females in good condition, but not nearly so fat as Waders usually are at this season. Sept. 25. Soon after we had landed on the Outlet marshes (a few hun- dred yards below the Outlet on the west bank) we saw three Waders feeding on a mud flat at the edge of a shallow pool of surface water. One of them proved to be a Ring-necked Plover. The other two I could not make out to my satisfaction, although I studied them for many minutes through my glass at a distance of about 25 yards and in a good light. I suspected that they were Baird's Sandpipers, but they looked and acted surprisingly like Ereunetes. They were wading up to their bellies in the