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UPTON, MAINE 
1872 
the woods were wet. Took 7 D.tlgrina 5 £ and my first Hylatomus 
pilcatus a fine male which I killed in a high birch tree with 
a wire cartridge. It did not seem very shy. 
June 7 - 9 
June 7 Clear and warm. Went up on the hill above Frost’s. 
Took 5 G.Philadelphia (2 £) and a Parus hudsonius. 
June _8 Rained so hard that we did not get out all day. 
June 9 Clear and cool. After breakfast put the skiff into the 
river above the dam and paddled up to the meadows making one 
carry of about 100 yds. and getting there at 3 P.M. The dis¬ 
tance is said to be three miles, but it is at least five. The 
’'meadows” were a large natural heath, perhaps a mile long and 
half as far across with a stream winding down through the middle 
owing, however, to the heavy rain falls lately, the water had 
risen over its banks to the depth of three or four feet and as 
we passed out from the dark,forest shaded stream into this beau¬ 
tiful little lake the scene was fine beyond description with 
towering mountains rising on all sides in the back ground, and 
the forest surface shading from the dark spruce and firs on 
their summits to the lighter green of the poplars and maples 
growing on the waters edge. Here however as everywhere in the 
wilderness the voices of old friends dispelled in part the wild¬ 
ness of the scene. The mellow trill of the Swamp sparrow came 
up from the bushes on either shore and the loud cheerful song 
of the Robin filled the echoing woods; a Marsh harrier was 
beating about over the submerged meadow and a large company of 
