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UPTON, MAINE 
September 1 
quickly through the woods and are not always easy to get. His 
bird was wing broken and when approached screamed loudly and 
bit fiercely, but with to little strength to cause paid. The 
others seemed to pay little or no heed to its cries. The fall 
plumage of most species of birds is now complete. The small 
birds are becoming scarce and are almost exclusively in flocks. 
Spent the P.M. in skinning our birds. J. monhermer and Walter 
Bracket arrived to-day, 
Septem b er 1 . Clear with very strong N. wind. Peeling rather 
tired did not go out this morning but staid in my room writing 
and etc. In g.M. took my boat and went down river alone. At 
the second bend saw a sandpiper running on the mud and firing 
at it, it rose uttering a single mellow tvreet and flew a short 
distance and dropped dead. Picking it up I was delighted to 
find that I had got a very beautiful specimen of T.bairdii,the 
first I had ever seen alive. Noticed nothing peculiar in its 
action excepting that It ran rather more rapidly than most of 
the genus. Continuing on down river I saw a pair of black duck 
feeding in a muddy creek and stalking them I killed one on the 
water and the other as it rose. Was quite surprised to find 
that the first was quite blind in both eyes, the pupil being 
opaque and white. I next came across a small flock of peeps 
and ring necks (A.semipal) and shot one of the latter at one 
discharge. Also killed a Rhy.solitarius and a Gambetta Mel. 
the latter at very long range. Stone went over to the Tyler 
place in A.M. and made a good bag, H.per., H.rufic., D.castanea, 
D.Penn., etc. 
