1893.
Sept. 28.
Lake Umbagog, Maine.
  Clear with light southerly winds during the forenoon chang-
ing to N. E. and blowing fresh at evening with clouds overspread-
ing the sky.
  At 10.30 A.M. Spelman and I crossed to Moose Point where
we spent about two hours on the marsh. I shot 14 Grass Birds
and 2 Rails. Spelman 3 Grass Birds. Of these Sandpipers there
was a flock of about 30 and perhaps half as many more scattered birds.
Most of my birds were shot singly and all flying. I killed
eight in succession without a miss. Started only one Snipe.
[margin]Moose Point
Pectorals.
Snipe[/margin]
  At evening we went again to Moose Point. There was a good
flight of Ducks, fully 50 coming in. Spelman was well posted and
got ten or a dozen shots getting down only one bird which fell
in the Lake and was lost. Only a few birds came my way. I 
fired four shots and killed one Black Duck.
[margin]Evening
flight of
Ducks[/margin]
  In the afternoon Spelman and I blazed a trail to the cove
north of Pine Point. We found the woods very beautiful with
large trees and but little undergrowth. On reaching the cove
and looking out throught the stubs we saw a flock of thirteen
Sheldrake swimming about close to shore. One climbed to
the top of a large rock and went to sleep in the sun.
[margin]Gooseanders[/margin]
  Late in the afternoon we came suddenly upon an old male
Partridge, doubtless the same bird which has been drumming these
[margin]Partridge[/margin]