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Lake Umbagog.
1898.
August 29
  Cloudy with strong S. E. wind.
  Spent most of the day sailing canoes off the point
where the strong wind and heavy seas made the sport
exciting enough. Saw very few birds and nothing of any
especial interest. A red-eyed Vireo warbled occasionally
during the forenoon but there was no other singing.
[margin]Sailing on
the Lake[/margin]
  Will Sargent tells me that late last autumn (in
November he thinks) his brother Leeman saw a
Snowy Owl at the Narrows of Richardson Lake. It
was perched on an upturned root at the water's
edge. Just as he was about to shoot it flew and
rising above the trees made off over a point of land.
He afterwards came on it again further up the
Lake & fired at it cutting out two wing feathers
which he describes as pure white with black
markings.
[margin]Snowy Owl
on 
Richardson's
Lake[/margin]
  At about noon to-day I was surprised to hear
a Least Flycatcher directly in front of the camp.
First it called white a few times and then it
gave at least a dozen chebecs in quick unbroken
succession but in rather feeble tones.
[margin]Least 
Flycatcher[/margin]
  Owls are either scarce or very silent this year.
I heard the first to-night, a Great-horned Owl
that hooted a dozen times or more (at 8.30 P.M.)
in the direction of Moll's Rock.