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UPTON, MAINE 
1874 
August 12 - 13 
a rock in front of Ellinwood’s house. We sailed down on him 
and I was on the point of shooting when I noticed that he was 
feeding from a tin dipper and as we ran close up to him he flap¬ 
ped his wings and squealed a few note® of pleasure or recogni¬ 
tion and I saw that it was a full grown Larus argentatus in 
brown plumage and evidently a tame bird; very possible it was 
raised from an egg taken at B. pond where this species breeds. 
A party of angler worm fishes having depopulated our trout pool 
I have had no fly fishing of late. Our evenings are now quite 
enjoyable with the company of S., B. & L. 
August 15. Cloudy and rained at intervals during the day. Off 
collecting in A.M. with S. taking the Stone road. Shot 12 birds 
the best G.Philadelphia 1 (full fall plumage), D.tlgrina 1 adult 
o , P.villosus 1 g , P.pubescens 2 (1 nestling © with head 
spotted), Sp.varius (2 y.y., 1 adult g), D.blackburniae2, Hy. 
pilatus 1 adult . The H.pilcatus I killed on the edge of the 
Stone farm. I was attracted to it by Its laugh which was very 
like that of Colaptes but stouter, rather louder and ending in 
a slight tremulo: it might be readily mistaken for the song of 
that bird, indeed I am conscious of having heard It near the 
house a few days since, when at the most I only suspected its 
real author. The S.phil. I shot on the wood path. It is a 
more deliberate bird than its prototype and I think does not 
jerk its tail at all: its chirp which I heard distinctly was 
almost precisely similar to that of Sciurus noveboracensis. 
c^uis.purpureus is still with us; I saw a large flock In the 
