Lake Umbagog, Maine.
Sweats Meadow & Errol Hill Pond.
1895.                 
Sept. 24
(No. 2)
  After breakfast Jim & I started for Sweats Meadow in the large
boat. We had just passed through Richardson's Carry when the Pigeon
Hawk just  mentioned come flying over us very swiftly & I
brought him down broken winged into the river.                                   
  On reaching Sweats' Meadow we landed and crossed the birch
ridge to Errol Hill Pond striking it near the Outlet where
we found a shelter camp & a fire burning deeply & dangerously
in the ground. As it threatened the destruction of the whole
forest we went to work at once to put it out which we
finally accomplished after about two hours of hard work.
[margin]Errol Hill Pond[/margin]
  We then embarked on a raft which we poled around the head
of the pond stopping frequently to take photographs. There was                                 
only one Duck in the pond to-day - a female or young male
Ring-neck. It made three attempts to leave the place rising &
circling but evidently afraid to pass over us as it must do
to reach the sag at the outlet. Finally it swam past us
along the opposite shore & then rising went out undisturbed.
I noticed that its wing beats were more rapid than those of
any other Duck found except the Hooded Marganser. When 
in the pond it kept well out in the open water [delete]& stretched[/margin] with its
neck stretched up to the full length most of the time.
[margin]Aythya collaris[/margin]
  On the 19th I saw circling over Sweat's Meadow a large Buteo
which I called a Red-tail but which I noticed had a
whitish rump. We found to-day what was doubtless the same
bird sitting on a stub at the head of Errol Hill Pond. It
flew presently & came past us another 100 yards. [?]ing &
rising giving us a good view of it through the glass. It 
looked very like an immature Red tail but it was rather small
for that species & the whole rump was dirty white.
[margin]A Buteo
with a 
white rump.[/margin]