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1874 
UPTON, MAINE 
September 4. - 5 
aboard and a gentleman in his party gave me a Pod.podiceps in 
very singular plumage. I think it is a young bird. Coming 
down the lake the wind blew almost a gale and to my surprise 
nearly every loon that we saw would rise on wing easily at our 
approach. They tell me that it is impossible for them to rise 
in a dead calm. Hirundo horreorum is still with us. At the 
outlet was very sure that I heard Tringa Bairdii, but may have 
been mistaken. 
September 4 . Clear, cool and a most lovely day. After break¬ 
fast took the Tyler road with S. and walked over to the farm. 
Pound small birds very scarce. In the larch swamp I shot a 
thrush and going in to pick him up came suddenly upon an old 
cock spruce grouse. Standing in a little knoll amid a clump of 
bunch berries with a sunbeam lighting up his dark plumage he 
presented a most beautiful appearance and I looked at him several 
moments before shooting. Killed a £ D.caerulescens and a few 
other worthless birds and came home meeting on the way Henry 
Douglass who gave me a fine y.y. Tetrao Can. which he had killed. 
Spent the P.M. in skinning the grouse and the birds shot yester- 
J day. The marsh is now nearly as dry as last year and herons etc. 
getting very abundant. 
September 5 . Clear, cool and a fine day. Took the boat up lake 
in the morning and got off at the outlet. As I was arranging 
things in my boat a large trout rose repeatedly near me taking 
each time a dead moth, numbers of which lay dead on the surface. 
Paddling into the river went ashore and beat nearly the whole 
