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Totanus melanoleucus.
1889, Lake Umbagog.
September 12.
They (some campers on Moll's Rock) have also killed many
Yellow-legs. One man got eleven by firing both barrels into a
flock of about 300.
1890, Lake Umbagog.
October 6. Near Outlet of Lake.
Soon after this we heard Yellow-legs whistling up river
and paddling to the spot found three more all of which I killed.
One was so tame that I got within ten feet of it and actually
fired a shot at one of the others directly over its head without
starting it.