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UPTON, MAINE 
1873 
September 23 - 24 
several Picoides articus: this note (have heard only one) is 
not to be distinguished from the ”chuck n of the common ground 
squirrel. Saw of warblers, D.coronata abundant, D.maculosa 
several, D.virens do., Parula am. do., Geothlypis trichas do. 
and D.carulescens do.: the chick of the latter species is ex¬ 
actly like that of Junco hyemalis. Sitta can. is getting very 
abundant. Saw a few Chry.tristis and pinus and a single Rhy, 
solitarius, also one Sp.varius. In P.M. skinned my birds. 
September 23 . Cloudy and cold. Spent most of the day packing up, 
September 24 . Left the lake for home this morning in a pouring 
rain. The scenery was lovely though chilled and obscured to 
some degree by the dark gloomy morning; the foliage on the moun¬ 
tain sides had nearly reached its perfection of autumn splendor 
and exhibited all its gorgeous coloring to perfection in con¬ 
trast with the dark firs and spruces. In the notch a rf.grouse 
walked out into the road in front of the horses and surveyed us 
coolly until we were nearly upon her, then with a short flight 
disappeared among the yellow birches. Near Bethel we began to 
see numbers of Mimus car. along the roadside: did not observe 
them at all this year at Upton. Reached Cambridge at 9 P. M. 
and found all well. 
