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IJPTON, MAINE 
1874 
August 30 - 31 
and I killed my first three birds in good style, afterwards 
missing three rather hard shots. In P.M. B. went down in the 
marsh and shot two Gambetta melanoleuca, a ring neck, 
August 30 . (Sunday) Clear and a fine day. Had a heavy thunder 
shower about sunset. Spent the day about the house. Capt. A. 
Picket informs me that Sciurus Carolinensis was one year (about 
1860) very abundant on the Megalloway where numbers were shot: 
a few were also seen about the same time at Errol, N.H. Both 
since and previous to that time none have been seen. 
August 31 . Clear and warm. Started out immediately after break¬ 
fast with S. taking the Tyler road. Found birds rather scarce 
but I made a fair bag notwithstanding, 10 birds in all. The 
best were Vireo Phil, 1 (^y.y.), Antros.vociferus 1 (adult &) 
D.caerulescens 2 ( <t> & ), D.blackburniae 1 (y.y.^ in very unique 
plumage), Sitta Can. and Colaptes auratus (y.y. jg), The vireo 
was in nearly the same place as those taken on the 29th: nothing 
new observed concerning it. The whippoowill I started near the 
Tyler opening in a scattered second growth of birch on burnt 
land; it was perfectly silent and I killed it at a very hard 
cross shot, flying. Shot also a D.striata and saw a number of 
others. The Colaptes had quite distinct black check patches 
though its dissection was so carefully made by both S. and my¬ 
self and the ovaries so conspicuous that there was not the 
slightest room for doubt as to the identity of its sex. S. got 
a Perisoreus from a little company of three which we both pur¬ 
sued. Though superlatively tame they nevertheless move quite 
