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UPTON, MAINE 
1874 
August 21 - 
shots at them. I brought down two from on wing and S. shot 
one from a tree. They were quite tame and were attracted there 
by the blueberries and raspberries. Their flight is I think 
at times more rapid than any bird I am acquainted with and their 
habit of scaling and twisting when pasing through the woods 
makes them very hard to hit. Took also two G.Phil. (one adult 
& ) and three Picus villosus and an adult <2. Tetrao Can, The 
latter I flushed from a clump of rasberry bushes in the open 
pasture several rods from the woods which were hard wood growth: 
quite an unique haunt for this bird. She rose with a magnifi¬ 
cent burst and hummed off for the woods in fine style. I fired 
a dust squib a her on wing and hit her fairly but the small shot 
had little effect on her and I was obliged to follow her into 
the woods where I shot her through the head as she sat on a log. 
Properly educated and in a good shotting country I think this 
species would make a fine game bird, 
August 21 . A.M. clear and hot. P.M, rainy. Started up the 
hill after breakfast taking my Tonks gun. Beat all the forenoon 
for game and shot three pigeons, two of them croos shots flying. 
Killed also a fine y.y. G.Phil. and a Hy.ludoviciana. The for¬ 
mer I came suddenly upon as he was washing in a brook and watched 
him for some time before shooting. Humming birds have become 
very abundant within a few days, S. was out and killed a very 
young warbler which I think is D.tigrina, In P.M. skinned our 
birds. 
August 22 . Clear cool and a very fine day with a strong bracing 
