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UPTON, MAINS 
1874 
August 25 
including a very yound Empidonax which I think must be traillii. 
Heard a G.Phil. near an old camp and S. Saw the bird distinctly 
Fired a number of shots with my rifle at a very large Buteo bo¬ 
realis which kept sailing about over my head but did not succeed 
in hitting him. In the barn at the Cross place I had heard on 
our last trip some C.pelasgia twittering after dark and examin¬ 
ing the premises this morning I was pleased at discovering one 
of their nests built against one end up near the ridgepole. It 
was fastened against the flat face of the boards and differed 
not at all f*om the usual type. I have twice lately had a 
Prochilus colubris poise itself within a foot of the bright pur¬ 
ple sleeve of my cardigan jacket as I stood fishing evidently 
mistaking the garment for a bank of brilliant flowers and In 
neither case did it seem quite sure of its mistake until I moved 
and frightened it. Reached the house by 6 P.M, 
AugTist 25 . Clear and a fine day. Spent the whole of the fore¬ 
noon in skinning and making up my loon. It was not so tough a 
bird as the one shot last year, but I spent much time in wash¬ 
ing and cleaning off the blood. It proved a £ and eighed 8|- lbs. 
Late in P.M. took a turn up the swamp road on Cambridge river 
and shot 6 birds. One nearly adult Perisoreus and T.swainsonii 
(y.y, fall plumage), 1 Parus hud. (do.) 1 Sitta can. (do.) 2 
Regulus satrapa (changing to fall plumage) All the young birds 
are fast getting out of the nestling plumage, but they also seem 
to be leaving here properly started on their S. migration by the 
almost frosty mights which we have had lately. Saw a flock of 
