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UPTON, MAINE 
1874 
September 10-11 
unrecognized by me. It resembles somewhat the note of Turdus 
Swainsonii, but I think is not that either. Whatever maybe 
its author the species must be a large (numerous) one as I hear 
them nearly every clear night. Warblers are getting very scarce 
in the woods with the exception of B.striata and coronata. In 
P.M. wrote a few letters and skinned a bird or two. S. and B. 
went down on the march and B. killed a snipe, the only one that 
they saw. 
September 10 . Fair day, but very sultry and smoky with S. wind. 
Took the steamboat in the morning and got off at B. point. Pad- 
died ashore at Sargents landing and beat a small tract of corn 
for cock. We soon started some birds in very hard shooting, 
and. I bagged 4 in 9 shots. S. did not fire at all. We started, 
at the utmost not over 5 birds. Only one or two of them whis¬ 
tled, they, for the most part, rising with a heavy flutter and 
going off in silence. They were nearly through the moult. 
Afterwards beat over a good extent of promising looking ground 
without starting a feather. Paddled home, I shooting a ring 
neck by the way, and reached the house by noon. In the P, M. 
beat over along the Tyler road and started a brood of £.grouse 
missing two flying shots and killing a bird on the ground. At 
the mouth of the river this morning saw two Falco sparverius 
chasing one another across the cove, flying easily and not un¬ 
like swallows. Saw also several very large flocks of Quiscalus 
purpureus. 
September 11 , Clear and a lovely day. After breakfast tramped 
