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UPTON, MAINE 
1873 
August 1-2 
these birds are evidently of not infrequent occurence here. 
Heard several Cont.borealis. I am now quite strong again. 
August 1 . Cloudy and rained hard all day. Barstow went up to 
Megalloway in the boat this morning. I spent all the forenoon 
on the birds shot yesterday and mounted the H.lunifrons. In 
the P.M. Mr. Goodwin returned from a trip up the lake bringing 
me a snow white swallow, an albino, I think, of H.bicolor: un¬ 
fortunately as it was shot last Monday it was too far gone to 
skin so I carbolicised it. After supper while sitting on the 
piazza a Canada jay flies by and lit for a moment in a small 
birch tree: it is the first I have seen here and Mr. G. in¬ 
forms me that it is seldom observed in the summer. A large 
party came down from Tyler’s cove bringing five Mergus Am. 
that they had shot: all were young birds about half grown. 
August 2 . Started in the boat this morning at 7:30 and made the 
round trip getting home at 9:30 P.M. Had a most lovely day 
clear and still. The first stretch up the lake to the inlet 
is very beautiful, the scenery fine and the mountain outlines 
bold. At the inlet saw Sanborn and party: took on board a 
Messrs. Poland and Buffom. We then entered the mouth of the 
Androscoggin and ran do?;n to Errol seeing many ducks of which 
I shot one, a L.cucullatus £ as it rose ahead of the boat: 
here we saw also a £ Pin.sparverius, a pair of G.flavipes and 
immense numbers of Rhy.solitarius: so thick indeed were these 
latter birds that grequently a dozen would start at once from 
the shore. The kingfishers were also in swarms and we must 
