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UPTON, MAINE 
1874 
August 9-10 
qnd were quite noisy, calling out pser pser pse er in a peevish 
tone very like the young of E.minimus. The old $. was in perfect 
spring plumage: indeed I begin to suspect that the two E. re¬ 
presentatives of this genus do not moult at all in summer. The 
young of My canadensis, D.blackburniae and D.maculosa have now 
for the most part acquired their full fall plumage. S. shot two 
Cont.borealis and a D,virens in imperfect 2nd plumage. 
August 9 . (Sunday) Rained most of the day. Spent all the P.M. 
in skinning the birds shot yesterday. 
August 10 . Clear and hot. Off after breakfast taking the Tyler 
road and going as far as the Tyler farm. Shot 11 birds, the 
best D.tigrlna $ adult, G.trichas nestling, D.maculosa 1 nestl. 
Picus villosus very white ^ , Chaetura pelasgia 1 adult, D.cas- 
tania 1 y.y. Stone shot a young eg P.arcticus with yellow on the 
crown: here we have the unique case of a young £ bird possess¬ 
ing the adornments of the adult $ and loosing them in the first 
moult as I am convinced this bird would have done. I obtained 
this specimen from him in exchange for my adult & shot last week 
and also exchanged a Emp.flaviventris for a very fine young 
Sphy.varius. I also shot a y.y. Sciurus aurocapillus. We saw 
no game excepting a pair of pigeons flying high up. In P.M. 
skinned our birds. The chirp of the warblers I have heard for 
several nights past and I think they are already beginning to 
move. No bird sings regularly now excepting Zon,atrichia and 
he is fast lapsing into silence. His two first notes are ex¬ 
actly those of the "Mulligan gaurds". 
After supper took a 
