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UPTON, MAINE 
1873 
July 28 - 31 
around the house. 
July 28. Clear, cool and a lovely day. Father left this after¬ 
noon leaving me alone and I passed a most dull evening feeling 
exceedingly homesick, hut as soon as I can get out among the 
birds again shall feel better. 
July 2 9. Cloudy and rained nearly all day. Spent most of the 
day in the house and find myself now gaining fast. "Charles” 
Barstow came down on the boat this evening having been up to 
Parmachuny Lake with Magee and friends: he seems to be a gen¬ 
tleman and a good fellow. 
July 50 . Clear and a lovely day. In the morning went out be¬ 
hind the barn and watched the birds for an hour or two and 
found a nest of Ch.tristis by the twittering of the sitting^ 
but was unable to reach it. The swallows are, I think, pre¬ 
paring to leave: I notice that H.lunifrons flies much higher 
as a rule than the others and is harder to take on that account; 
have seen no H.bicolor for several days. In the P.M. went down 
river with Barstow and I shot a kingfisher, my first bird, with 
my rifle at about 80 yds. We saw about a dozen of these birds 
altogether, 
July 31 . Clear but warm. After brakfast went out behind the 
barn and shot a D.coronata and D.maculosa nestling and a H. 
lunifrons. In P.M. went down river and on the way back had 
the good luck to secure two Picoides arcticus, and adult and 
-nestling, both o» Took also a S.sialis nestling and a Sp.varius 
do. Saw a large flock of Aeg.semipal. and 3 G.flavipes and 
