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UPTON, MAINE 
1874 
August 26-27 
three Perisoreus: they acted in the usual manner. Heard for 
the first time and distinctly Curvirostris leucoptera flying 
overhead. 
August 26 . Cloudy most of the day. Spent the forenoon in skin¬ 
ning the birds shot yesterday. After dinner started out with 
S. and B. taking the Stone road. Pound birds very scarce, in¬ 
deed the woods seemed almost completely deserted. I shot three 
Scol,ferruginous (y.y.) a very young nestling of Junco hyemalis 
and a nestling Geothypis trichas. Returning S. and I took a 
paddle up Cambridge river in the skiff, but saw nothing of note. 
I knocked over an old cock partridge to Shots point flushing 
him from the ferns near the path. Also shot a kingfisher as he 
flew by the boat: it proved a very young bird and with four or 
five others was keeping up a continual rattling in a more sub¬ 
dued tone than the adult. 
August 27. Clear and a fine day with little wind. S., B. and 
self took the boat up lake and started in at Leonards pond for 
a days duck shooting. Pound about a dozen ducks in the pond 
and spent the forenoon chasing them; at least B. did, S. and I 
having drawn stations on the two narrows. S. and B. both had a 
number of shots but bagged only one duck. I fired only one shot 
a very long one. While lying in my stand I was much surprised 
at hearing the whistle of a Pinicola canadensis . After imitat¬ 
ing his call for a few minutes I got him within range and killed 
him: it proved a young bird in a plumage quite new to me. Saw 
also a number of Rhy.solitarius here. After lunch S. and I 
