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UPTON, MAINE 
1874 
September 2, - 3 
September 2 . Clear and cool with bracing N. wind. After break¬ 
fast started for a paddle up Cambridge river. In the alders be¬ 
low the house I made a good snap shot at a pigeon and shot also 
1 a f ^- ne young ^ H.ludoviciana. While wrapping him up two birds 
passed over my head at a great pace, flying close to-gether like 
pigeons. I shot the nearest one and found that it was a Falco 
sparverius, a y.y. bird in fine plumage. Taking the boat up 
river I got 5 or 6 birds D.maculosa 2, Sitta can. 1, etc. Saw 
several very large flocks of warblers but they were quite shy. 
Saw also a Trochilus col. probably about the last. Skinned 
birds all P.M, 
September 3 . Cloiidy, muggy and smoky. Heavy gale of wind with 
rain late in P.M, S. and I took the sail boat up lake in the 
morning and disembarked at Leonards pond. Lay in the narrows 
for ducks for two hours or so, and S. got several shots killing 
one Querquedula discors from a flock of 8 which lit near him. 
I had only one shot, a long one which I missed. Killed a Pere- 
soreus canadensis and heard a P.arcticus. After eating dinner 
we paddled down river and landing tried for snipe flushing three 
all of which I killed the first rise without missing. While 
eating lunch we amused ourselves with feeding the chubs, multi¬ 
tudes of which soon collected around the boat. Putting my hand 
down among them they would nibble fearlessly at my fingers and 
I found no difficulty in catching even large ones in my hand. 
Took the steamer at the outlet and found that she had struck a 
rock at Bottlebrook and was leaking badly. Spoff Flint was 
