Lake Umbagog, Maine.
Megalloway River
1894
Sept 28
(No 2)
me some trouble but it died away as the sun
sank in the west and our row homeward was
simply delightful while I was able to use my remaining
plates to, I trust, good advantage.
  While we were ascending the Megalloway on the morning
of the 26th we saw a hen Partridge fly from the
west bank and alight on the hillside a little below
Pulpit Rock. Just before sunset this evening what
must have been the same bird flew across at precisely
the same point but in the opposite direction.
  I landed and found her under a Viburnum nudum
laden with berries on which she had doubtless been
finding. She ran a few steps & quitted when I shot her
through the head. A cock was drumming in the
woods near the Rock when we went up this morning.
We saw a Pileated Woodpecker & a large flock of
Robins, A Coopers' Hawk, a Marsh Hawk & a 
Sharp-Shinned Hawk. The last I shot. It flew across
the river near its mouth & alighted in a spruce, low
down, among dense foliage. This was after sunset.
Our sportsmen were banging away as hard as ever
when we reached the marshes. We saw one of them
bring a Duck to their boat and another Duck fell
to the fire of three of their barrels as we lay in
Richardson's Carry a little later. No Ducks came our
way but several large flocks passed high in air
in the distance. Snipe scarped[?] and darted down
on loud rushing wings as the night came on and
I heard our drum. A few Leopard Frogs snored
and a number of little Bats flickered over the water.
Then it became night and we rowed home to camp.
[margin]Partridges
Robins
Hawks
Outlet
marshes at
evening[/margin]
[margin]Ducks[/margin]
[margin]Snipe[/margin]
[margin]Leopard Frogs
Bats[/margin]