49 UPTON, MAINE 1873 August 26 - 27 August 26. Clear, cool and pleasant. Started up Cambridge river after breakfast taking my br. loader and shot six birds, the best a ♀ D.tigrina y.y. and 3 D.pennsylvanica y.y. Saw a y.y. Mniotilta varia, but was too near to shoot, and in backing out lost it. Made a very good snap shot at a Black duck as it was disappearing round a bend and killed it. Guiraca ludoviciana is getting numerous. They fly about in small companies, from tree to tree, uttering the fall note before referred to: I al- so hear them frquently at night. Barstow came down from the dam this evening. He had good fishing, took trout up to 2½lbs. August 27. Clear cool and a most lovely day. About 10 started up the lake on the steamer with Barstow and were left at Bear brook pond hole, the boat running up to Megalloway to take up H. Winslow and party. Shot a mink then started down river and sailed to the mouth. Struck into a pond hole near the outlet where we saw numbers of ducks and I shot two hooded mergansers both flying and a winter yellow leg. While in this pond the steamer ran down by and there we were left fully 12 miles from home, but had to make the best of it, so taking it coolly we sailed about 2 miles before dark and rowed the rest of the way getting back to the Lake house by 10:30 P.M. Heard a number of loons and one owl on the way down and saw large numbers of ducks coming up from the narrows. The melancholy quavering cry of the loon we heard at intervals up to 10 o'clock and the faint lisp of the migrating warblers and sparrows was almost incessant in the darkness overhead: at one time a Tyrannus car.