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UPTON, MAINE 
1873 
September 18 - 
September 18 . Clear and warm with South wind. Spend A.M. about 
the house while Barstow went down on the marsh and started 8 
snipe one of which he shot. In P.M. went up Cambridge River and 
shot a black duck sitting, and five small birds. Was much sur¬ 
prised at coming upon a rail (P.Carolina) that was sitting 
crouched up under a log on the edge of the stream. There has 
been quite a change in nature within the last week: the birches 
and maples are fast assuming their autumnal tints and a few 
cold nights have banished nearly all the more delicate summer 
specie* of birds. Among the warblers only one species is left 
in any numbers—D.coronata. I saw one each of Parula am., Deud. 
maculosa and D.striata, but the chirping hordes of these birds 
that a few days since filled the woods are gone. Lon.albicollis 
and Junco hy. with Parus atri., P.hudson. and Begelus sat. and 
D.coronata are more the prominent species in the woods. Passer, 
savanna and MelPalustris on the marsh. Chry.pinus are coming 
about the house again in large, whirling, eccentric flocks and 
I heard a single Rhy.solitarius to-day. Sp.varius is still 
present in small numbers as is Chry. tristis. Mr. G. Heyward 
informs me that Mergus Am. and Turdus mig, winter here every 
year in small numbers, the former fishing the eddies in the 
streams. 
September 19, Cloudy and rained hard all day. Spent the day 
about the house being much troubled by rheumatism in my hip, 
September 20 . Cloudy and clear alternately. Rained very hard 
last night. After dinner started up Cambridge river in the 
