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UPTON, MAINE 
1873 
August 26 - 27 
August 26 . Clear, cool and pleasant. Started up Cambridge river 
after breakfast taking my br. loader and shot six birds, the 
^best a $ D.tigrina y.y. and 3 D.pennsylvanica y.y. Saw a y.y. 
Mniotilta varia, but was too near to shoot, and in backing out 
lost it. Made a very good snap shot at a Black duck as it was 
disappearing round a bend and killed it. Guiraca ludoviciana 
is getting numerous. They fly about in small companies, from 
tree to tree, uttering the fall note before referred to: I al¬ 
so hear them frquently at night. Barstow came down from the 
dam this evening. He had good fishing, took trout up to 2^1bs. 
August 27 . Clear cool and a most lovely day. About 10 started 
up the lake on the steamer with Barstow and were left at Bear 
brook pond hole, the boat running up to Megalloway to take up 
H. Winslow and party. Shot a mink then started down river and 
sailed to the mouth. Struck into a pond hole near the outlet 
where we saw numbers of ducks and I shot two hooded mergansers 
both flying and a winter yellow leg. While in this pond the 
steamer ran down by and there we were left fully 12 miles from 
home, but had to make the best of it, so taking it coolly we 
sailed about 2 miles before dark and rowed the rest of the way 
getting back to the Lake house by 10:30 P.M. Heard a number 
of loons and one owl on the way down and saw large numbers of 
ducks coming up from the narrows. The melancholy quavering 
cry of the loon we heard at intervals up to 10 o’clock and the 
faint lisp of the migrating warblers and sparrows was almost 
incessant in the darkness overhead: at one time a Tyrannus car. 
