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UPTON, MAINE 
1873 
July 24 - 27 
July 24 . Woke this morning feeling better though weak: fever 
rather abated. Mr. G. is very kind and sat up all night with 
me. At daylight the white throats sang beautifully. In the 
night I heard a harsh note made by some bird unknown to me. 
'There seemed to be two of these and once they came very near 
my window. I do not hear the night hawks at all except at dusk 
in the evening and again in the first twilight of morning: if 
they are abroad here in the hours of darkness they are at least 
silent. As my doctor has not come, I sent a telegram home this 
morning. This evening the doctor came, but indignant at his 
delay I refused to either see or pay him. 
July 25 . Clear and warmer, Passed a rather better night get¬ 
ting an hour or two of sleep and woke this morning with the 
fever nearly abated. Father arrived this afternoon, but I was 
too weak to say more than a few words to him. 
July 26 . Clear and a very warm day. Sat up an hour or two for 
the first time. In P.M. saw fhom my window a brood of young 
D.tigrinas accompanied by the old male: also an adult & S. 
ruticilla in a sadly ragged moulting condition. J. Swaim left 
this morning. 
July 27 . Cloudy and rained most of the morning. Spent the day 
about the house with father coming down to my meals and feeling 
quite well. Ch.tristis and C.pinus are both very abundant and 
are evidently breeding. Ch.pinus sings one song very much like 
C.tristis, in a warbling continued strain, but not nearly so 
sweetly. Parus hudsonius I hear frequently in the garden and 
