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UPTON, MAINE 
1872 
June 2-14 
weeks before the lake was frozen over and snow on the ground. 
These twenty-three species with those observed last season 
make the list up to one hundred and nine: This includes only 
those actually observed or received from the statements of a 
number of reliable persons: with the exception of a few of the 
Raptores and two or three ducks it probably includes nearly all 
the birds breeding here. A few weeks work in early May and in 
the autumn and winter would undoubtedly add many migrants and 
might bring to light important discoveries. Vireo Philadelphi- 
cus, for instance, I am convinced would occur in comparitive 
abundance a little earlier and rare stragglers from the South 
and West might be expected as there is undoubtedly some route 
from the West by which many species come without passing through 
Massachusetts. 
June 1 5. Rose at 4 and started on our stage ride down to B. 
with Llewellyn Moody for driver and enjoyed the drive much. 
Heard numbers of E. trailli, Cont.borealis and G.Philadelphia 
and I shot one of the latter: saw also two large Buteos sitting 
on trees near the roadside and heard two Myiarchus crinitus. 
Got to B. by 11 and into Boston by 8 P.M. Had our'birds packed 
in one of the trunks and found them in rather a flattened con¬ 
dition when we got home. 
