Macrorhamphus griseus. Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1900. Opposite Leonard's Pond we (the Stones and I) found Mr. Sept.I4. Dutton beating the marshes for Snipe. As I was watching him I discovered four large waders which I took at first for Sum- mer Yellow-legs feeding on a space of bare mud on the edge of the river (Androscoggin). Dutton soon saw them too and ap- proaching them fired several shots, killing three of them. Before this slaughter was completed and while the frightened birds were dashing back and forth over the flats I recog- nized them as Red-breasted Snipe, a species new to my Umbagog list. On landing and examining the three that Mr.Dutton had killed I found that they were all typical griseus and all young birds. They were curiously colored, being neither in 1900. Sept.I4. (no. 2) the brown-backed, red-breasted summer plumage, nor in the gray and white winter dress, but having the brown of the up- per and the red of the lower parts overlaid or clouded with grayish through which the richer colors showed indistinctly as through a veil. I think I have seen this plumage before in specimens shot late in September or early in October. It state is apparently a transition between the summer and winter plu- mages.