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Totanus flavipes.
Waino (Lake Umbagog).
1873.
July 20. Saw three on the Cambridge River marshes.
1874.
Aug. 13. Saw several flocks at the mouth of Cambridge River.
" 27. A flock of four feeding on the mud in Black Island Cove.
1880.
Sept. 2. Shot two.
" 3. One flying over the meadows and whistling, after dark.
" 13. Two on the mud-flats near the mouth of the Cambridge. They were very tame and I watched their motions for sometime, standing within ten yards of me. They probed the mud very like Snipe, and tilted the head and fore-part of the body in a peculiar, automaton-like way.