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T.ake TJrnbaf^on, ^ialI 

 Clear and cold; the wino south-'.vest. Iieft Hosi-on by t>ie 

 I'ortland steamer last night, reachinp, P,ethel by noon and dnv- 

 mp throiifh Upton before dark Sav/ one P. hyi)0(,-hrysi a at Heth^;] 

 and a namber of Si-)arrov/s at the por)(.i. 



r'-lear; nearly dead calm all cay. tlornmn cold, the pround 

 ano smaller pools frozen stiff. On the meadov/s "/itb Skillmps 

 ana Lovejjoy all the morninp, startmp thir-;.oen Snipe. In the 

 vroods most of the afternoon. Small birds, especiall,/ Sparrow's 

 m preat abundance. leaves nearly all dov/n. Fields ana mead- 

 'iV/s still p^recn, crickets cliirpinp, butterflies flyins' about, 'io 

 -'.'Inter bird abont excofTu Hed-crossbill s v/hich are m preat abunci 

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nioiidy vfitf' occasional sunshine. "-^indy and b]u;;terinn, but. 

 othcrv/ise v/armer than yesterday. On the lake all day, pomp: 

 around Great Island, In the ■■'oods behind the house at sunsex. 

 '■'ew small birds seen to-day. Piicks scarce on the T.^ake. 



Sunday. clear with hiph north-west wmf. 

 noo!i m the v/ood;; alonp the Ktone path, pomp 

 farm. Small birds numerous 



Spent the fore- 

 as far as the Suon 



CI Oil dl ess; the; Lake as smootli as pi ass all day. After 

 breakfast walked up the Ciimbridpe for about half a mile, meot- 

 mp a larpe flock of small birds. i^otiirninf started at nirie A. 15 

 v/ith Philip as puide and spent the day on the T,ake, pomp as 

 far as Moose Point. 



In the first pond m the Cambridpe river m.eadow \7ere sev- 

 en "Thistlers and a creen-wmp Teal. Killed one of the former 

 %■ 1 ' ; T. -1 -r! Dur^dler- easily to the latter( v/i oh 



bushed, boat) and s>iot it also sittinp. Off the Lakeside lano- 

 mp vTOro tv/o Hooded Mergansers v;hich proved very shy. Off the 



low(=>r end of creat Island v/e found two Surf Scoters, and pad- 

 'diinp within close ranpe I shot one on the water, the other as 



it rose. At the Narrov/s stalked three Sheldrakes, fl ishea T.be>! 



Ivid shot two ripiit and left. At fioii'-n rock paddled to ihroc 

 Horned (irebos and shot them all. At floose Point flushed and 

 killed three 'Snipe in three shots. The Take was swimming with 

 Sheldrake, I sa-7 upviards of two hundred, also a large flock of 

 Scaup Pucks, 



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