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UPTON, MAINE 
1873 
June 12 . Started for Upton, Maine with H. A. Purdin where we 
arrived the afternoon of the 13th and spent a most pleasant two 
weeks. We return to Boston on June 28th. I collected princi¬ 
pally from a boat 55 birds some of them good, and the nest eggs 
of T.swainsonii and E.traillii. 
July 17 . This morning started again for Upton taking my Setter, 
Shot and three Guns, and arrived at Bethel at 5 P.M. On the 
train made the acquaintance of Mr. H. Hatton of Havana, Cuba, 
and had a long talk with him on shooting. At Bethel found an 
old schoolmate,Henry Reed, and passed most of the evening talk¬ 
ing over old times. 
July 18. Left B. at 12,dinner at Poplar and reached the lake at 
6:30 P.M. At Bethel heard Spiz.pusil ia. In the evening a party 
of four Boston boys arrived, all gentlemen and good fellows, 
two of them Magee by name: they start to-morrow morning for 
Pamachury Lake from which place two New Yorkers have just "come 
out”; one of them a Mr. Carter. They had indifferent sport. 
July 19 . Cloudy and rained nearly all day. In P.M. much to my 
surprise saw a large flock of peeps (sp. not cr.) accompanied 
by five Aeg.semipalmatus. Caught two trout. 
July 20 . Sunday. Clear, cool and windy. Spent the day around 
the house: took a short paddle down river and saw three Ereu netes 
petrificatus , (got near enough to be sure) a Rhy.solitarius 
which lighted on the top of a stub 15 ft. high, and three Gam- 
getta flavipes . In the evening C.popetus were very thick 
flying around the house and lighting in the garden as in 1871. 
Two Mr. Fletchers "came out” to-day from Tyler cove with about 
