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UPTON, MAINE 
1874 
August 18 - 20 
its surface flying easily along and occasionally stooping down 
like a gull but in no instance in the course of an hours obser¬ 
vation did I see one actually touch the surface. Upon dissec¬ 
tion I found their stomachs fill entirely with insects: prin¬ 
cipally grasshoppers with a few Cohoptera and Diptera. All 
were quite fat but their bodies omitted none of that salty fishy 
smell peculiar to the marine species. The only note that I 
heard was a shrill and rather feeble kee-ep keep. Alive they 
looked from every side nearly black and about as large as night 
hawks. Saw a few Rhyacophilus solitarius during the day and 
five or six ospreys, the later is a very shy bird here. A 
Providence gentleman took some fine trout to-day at Sturdevants. 
August 19 . Clear and cool. Spent the A.M. about the house 
skinning birds and etc. In P.M. took a turn up on the hill with 
S. Opposite Peaseleys* we found a flock of about a dozen pigeons 
and I fired three shots at them flying without success though I 
took feathers from two of my birds. S. killed one sitting. Saw 
two S.Phil. and shot a young Scol.ferruginous, do. Ceryle alcyon 
and Hy.ludoviciana. Cicur hudsonius is not an uncommon bird here. 
I see them nearly every day. In the evening there were several 
large arrivals at the Lake house: among them Dr. Amler and Drs. 
Greenough and Green of Boston. 
August 20 . Cloudy and rained most of A.M. Spent the first part 
of the day in the house skinning birds and etc. Late in P.M. 
started up on "the hill" with Stone. Opposite Peaseleys* we 
found a flock of about twenty-five pigeons and got a n umb er of 
