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APPENDIX. 
Picus erythrocephalus (red-headed woodpecker), heard and saw; 
and good to eat. 
Sitta Carolinensis ? (white-breasted American nuthatch), heard. 
Alcedo alcyon (belted kingfisher), very common. 
Caprimulyus Americanus (night-hawk). 
Tetrao umbellus (partridge), Moosehead carry, &c. 
Tetrao cupido? (pinnated grouse), Webster Stream. 
Ardea coerulea (blue heron), lower part of Penobscot. 
Totanus macularius (spotted sandpiper or peetweet), everywhere. 
Larus argentatus? (herring-gull), Heron Lake on rocks, and 
Chamberlain. Smaller gull on Second Lake. 
Anas obscura (dusky or black duck), once in East Branch. 
Anas sponsa (summer or wood duck), everywhere. 
Fuligula albicola (spirit duck or dipper), common. 
Colymbus glacialis (great Northern diver or loon), in ail the lakes. 
A swallow; the night-warbler ? once or twice. 
Mergus Merganser (buff-breasted merganser or sheldrake), com¬ 
mon on lakes and rivers. 
Y. QUADRUPEDS. 
A bat on West Branch; beaver skull at Grand Lake; Mr. 
Thatcher ate beaver with moose on the Caucomgomoc. A musk¬ 
rat on the last stream; the red squirrel is common in the depths 
of the woods; a dead porcupine on Chamberlain road; a cow 
moose and tracks of calf; skin of a bear, just killed. 
VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION. 
The following will be a good outfit for one who wishes to make 
an excursion of twelve days into the Maine woods in July, with a 
companion, and one Indian for the same purposes that I did. 
Wear y — a check shirt, stout old shoes, thick socks, a neck rib¬ 
bon, thick waistcoat, thick pants, old Kossuth hat, a linen sack. 
Carry , — in an India-rubber knapsack, with a large flap, two 
