UPTON, MAINE 
1874 
July 28 - 
got out of sight of the house. Passed most of the day sitting 
on the piazza and shot 2 second plumage Hir.lunifrons and a Pi¬ 
ous pubescens with the whole top of head red. Leuman Sargent 
informs me that he once took a pair of young Haliaetus leucoce- 
phalus from the nest and kept them alive: until the third year 
they changed but little, then the head and tail both showed a 
little white: the fourth year both assumed their perfect plum¬ 
age. 
July 28 . Spruce grouse and young . Cloudy: rained all P.M. In 
forenoon took a turn through ”the savins” with my Jones gun and 
shot 9 young birds, the best D.tigrina , H.peregrlna g , Reg. 
satrapa, Zon.albicollis and Tetrao canadensis. While pushing 
my way through the ferns I found a brood of young Tetrao cana¬ 
densis which were about as large as quail. They rose with a 
whirring to the tops of the low firs where they sat gazing at 
me at me uttering occasionally a low whistling note. The mother 
of the brood lit also on a fir near by and called continually 
Kruck, kruck, krrrkruck to her young. Approaching her slowly 
I actually got near enough to push her off the bough with the 
muzzle of my gun, when she flew rapidly with loud whirring to 
another small tree and allowed me to approach quite as near again. 
Going off a few yards she began to call again loudly and the 
young birds answering she took wing and alighted among them. In 
flight and general attitude I noticed nothing widely different 
from B.umbellus, and the young were at a little distance sur¬ 
prisingly like those of that bird at the same age. Most of the 
