Lake Umbagog, Maine.    
Pine Point
1893.
Oct. 6.                                                                                               
  An Indian summer day, cloudless, very warm and still with
butterflies and dragon flies out in numbers.
  Spent the forenoon about camp. In the afternoon cut a
trail past the cove and up the hill beyond th where chase "logg-
ed" last summer. Passed some fine large spruce and hemlocks
and one of unusual size.
  Our Partridge did not drum at all during the morning but                                       
he began at about 4.30 P.M.  I went at once to a point of observ-
ation which I had previsously selected and watched him for nearly
an hour making some good notes. All the while a Black-backed                        
woodpecker was hammering away at a fallen spruce ( the identical
tree where the Barred - back was seen the 3rd) not ten yards
behind me and a Great - Horned Owl hooted occassionally in the hem-              
locks beyond.
[margin]Partridge[/margin]
[margin]Picoides arc[/margin]
[margin]Bubo[/margin]
  At dusk an Owl which I have never heard before came close
to the camp making a noise much like the honk of a Goose but                                 
hoarser and occasionally hooting. Its hoot was ho, ho-ho-ho, ho
ho, ho all the notes on the same key and equally emphasized, the
tone most like that of the Barred Owl but softer and less deep.
[margin]A strange Owl 
heard 
hooting & 
honking[/margin]
  Will and Jim heard the same bird in Glaspy cove while out
with the jack on the night of the 3rd but none on my four men