1876 
June 18. 
19. 
54. 
General observations. 
Maine (Lake Urnbagog ). 
Birds sing nov/ only early in the morning and again 
at sunset. The Winter Wren is not nearly as musicala 
as he was a ’veek ago and the song of the Brovm Creeper 
is heard much less frequently. 
The mosquitoes nov;- s\Yarm iii the woods, and the rank 
grov/th under foot of ireods and rasperbby bushes malces 
nest-hunting a laborious occupation. 
At Bethel I met Professor Morse of Salem, who has 
been taking altitudes in and near Grafton Notch, the fol- 
lov/ing are some of his determinations; Speclcled Moun¬ 
tain 4,000 feet; Saddle-back Mountain 3700 feet; high¬ 
est point of the road in the Notch 1250; La,ko Umbagog 
8G0 feet. 
1879. 
May 
24. 
25. 
26 . 
Reached the Lake 
nx s 
if ternoon. 
Vegetation is 
unusually forYZ-ard, owing to a './arm spell about a vzeok 
ago. The v/oods generally are green with unfolding 
leaves; the Moose-v/ood, Shad-bush, and Canada plum in 
full bloom; triliums (both purple and vzhite) and many 
other wild flov/ers in profusion. Most of the birds seem 
to be liore. 
Cl oudy and rather cold. Most of the summer birds 
seem to bo hero but few of tlie species are numerously 
roprosen ted. 
A warm, day, damp, cloudy, vzith occasional 'zleams of 
sunshine and desultory showers. Thors v;as a vzell-markod 
bird-vzave and the vzoods resounded all day with the songs 
of various species. At sunset the surface of tho Lake 
was as smooth as glass and not a leaf stirred in the 
forest. A dense smoky haze obscured the distant rioun- 
tains and oven reiiderod nearer objects indistinct, while 
the sinking sun throvz a lurid, glassy light over 'he 
scone. In the perfect stillness the evening songs of 
numberless birds came distinctly from tho densely wooded 
shores. The serene melody of a Hermit Thrush singing 
at least half a mile away was perfectly audible, and the 
song of the White-throated Sparrows vzero continuous, 
one porforme r quickly suecodding another. 
A cloudless day but a very wind one for 
1 ■) 
the 
nd tearing up the Surface of tho La.ke. 
e in flocks all day, in sheltered places 
of the vzoods and on sunny hillsides. In 
igly cold and a furious gale from the north- 
vzest, swaying the slender trees, roaring through the ever¬ 
green forests, e 
Tho Warblers vzor 
under the lee 
one small fir I saw five male Blackburnians together, 
three on one branch their orange- throats glowing liko 
coals among the dark foliage. A few dejected Humming¬ 
birds \zoro si.tting in the sun among dead twigs and fallen 
treeetops and occasionally one vzould visit t lo plum or¬ 
chard and battle vzith the winds for a sup of lioney from 
