55 UPTON, MAINE 1873 September 12 - 14 back by "300 acre island" we heard some large wild animal in the woods (*) making a harsh and rather tremulous cry and upon paddling in and firing the crashing of dry twigs was distinctly audible as it started off. (*) I now know this to have been merely a young Bubo virinianus September 12. Clear and a hot day. Ther. 87° My hip painin g me badly I remained in the house all day while the boys went up back of 300 acres island and returned at 9 P.M. with a wood duck and a heron (A.herodias). September 13. Clear and very warm, clouding up in P.M. with rain. Started on the boat this morning for Megalloway. At the outlet Dan shot two and I one winter yellow legs off the boat and between there and Errol I shot a sheldrake in the water and a merganser flying: up the Megalloway we saw large number of duck but got no shots. Arrived at Spencer found that we had left our valise at the Lake house, so had to give up our pro- posed stay of several days. The two brothers Allen and a Mr. Perry went up on the boat with us. Had a Calidris arenaria sent down to me by Barstow from the Richardson lake to-day. September 14. (Sunday) Cloudy and cold with occasional rain. Started from Megalloway on the boat at 10:30. At the outlet saw a fine pair of Eagles (H.leuco.) one a magnificent adult and the other with a little white on both head and tail: they were beating about over the meadow like marsh hawkes, lighting occasionally on low stubs. Just as the boat ran in to the landing at Upton a flock of five Quer. discors rose ahead and