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UPTON, MAINE 
1872 
June 9-11 
Night hawks were ’’booming" and circling about high up on the 
sky. Here we heard on all sides a new note, a single sl-ap 
repeated at intervals of about 20 seconds, and after much time 
spent in pursuit detected the author in Emp. flaviventris: this 
note which we afterwards heard quite frequently is the true 
30n S ^e $ , the pe e-e being uttered by both sexes and is 
much like the "chebec'* of E.min. We found E.traillii very 
abundant in the alder bushes along the edge of the meadow and 
saw a £ building. Started back about 6 and came down the five 
miles of river in a little over an hour the current running very 
fast in places. The scenery was wild and fine though a trifle 
monotonous with a broad fringe of alders and water willow on 
the rivers edge and a very heavy growth of spruce and fir,many 
of the trees hanging directly over the stream. Water thrushes 
and redstarts were very abundant in the swampy thickets while 
D.castanea, D.tigrina, D.maculosa and Hel.piregrina were every¬ 
where abundant in the taller trees. An occasional Wood duck 
and a pair of Ardea herodias were all the large birds that were 
seen. In the meadows above however we saw one flock of 16 and 
another of 18 Anas obscura. These we were informed by Mr. 
Stone were the old drakes. Got back to the house by 8 o'clock. 
Jung 10 Rained hard all day: got out in the afternoon for an 
hour or two and shot 3 C.borealis. 
June 11 Clear and warm. Went up on the hill and striking on 
further than ever before, discovered a swamp or range of swamps 
