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UPTON, MAINE 
1873 
August 12 - 13 
August 12 . Clear and rather wspm. After breakfast had a horse 
saddled, rode over to the skiff and started up C. river with 
Mr. Godwin. The morning was lovely and birds seemed to absolute¬ 
ly swarm. Parus hud , and H.peregrlna were abundant, the latter 
in large companies with other warblers flitting about in the 
bushes overhanging the water. A short distance up river a Buteo 
pennsylvanicus adit, tried to pass us and I shot it: further 
on a Night heron and a Wood duck rose together as we rounded a 
bend. I shot the former with the first and the latter with the 
second barrel. About 2 miles up we saw a woodcock running along 
the mud on the margin of the river and on going ashore at an¬ 
other place much to our surprise found the mud both on the bank 
and in the alders all bored up by these birds. On the way down 
I shot a young whistler and made a bad n muff” on a pair of black 
ducks, the first barrel missing fire and the second only wound¬ 
ing. After getting back went out to the spring behind the barn 
and shot a cock, at the second rise, missing both barrels the 
first. Shot a kingfisher with my rifle at fully 130 yds. 
August 13 . Clear and pleasant. Lounged around the house all day 
with Barstow who came down from Megalloway last night. In P.M. 
shot a kingfisher with my rifle at about 100 yds. Mr. Smith 
brought in a pair of young Tetrao canadensis in an interesting 
plumage, and Mr. Godwin an Ae.fuscus, all which they gave me. 
The crops of T.can. upon dissection I found to contain fir 
needles, raspberries, blueberries, checkerberries and fir buds. 
