1893.
Oct 3.
Lake Umbagog, Maine.
Outer Marshes, Sweats M., Errol Hill Pond.
  Cloudless and very warm. Lake dead calm through the fore-
noon. A fresh South-east wind in P.M.
  Spelman and I started off at 9 A.M. in the little open
canoe crossing first to Moose Point where S. shot a Dunlin.
Near the Outlet we found two Bonaparte's Sandpipers and a Beetle-
head Plover. The latter I shot flying after Spelman had fired
at and missed it on the mud. Heading the canoe across Moll's 
Carry we paddled down river to Sweat's meadow seeing three
Canada Jays on the way. There were no Ducks in Sweat's meadow
The water was very low and we had some difficulty in reaching
the brook on the west shore where we lunched. A pool, where the
brook empties, was literally alive with money bugs and water
boatmen which had probably chosen it for a winter home. After
lunch we crossed the ridge to the little pond under Errol Hill.
The paper birches along the trail were exceedingly beautiful for
their foliage had reached the perfection of its autumn coloring
yet scarce a leaf had fallen. On the pond were three Whistlers,
a grayish-colored Duck which looked like a female Red-head, and
a Heron. We did not get a shot at any of these birds.
[margin]Dunlin
Bonaparte S.
Beetle-head
Canada Jays
Lucky Bugs
Water Boatmen
Errol Hill
Pond.
Whistlers
Red head?
Duck
Great Blue Heron[/margin]
  Returning to the boat we were about to embark when a Par-
tridge came flying along the edge of the meadow and alighted on
the ground among some alders. I shot at and wounded it but it
flew away. We followed and I again fired at it on the ground
[margin]Partridge[/margin]