60 LAKE UMBAGO, UPTON, MAINE 1874 July 24 - 27 July 24. Clear, warm and pleasant. Left Boston at 8:15 on the Eastern road and arrived at the Lake by 11 P.M. after a most lovely ride through the notch by moonlight. Saw a Rhy.solitar- ius at Bryants pond. Took possession of my last years room and turned in at once. July 25. Clear, very warm in forenoon, but good breeze in P.M. Unpacked my things in forenoon, that is, as many as I have, one trunk and valise of ammunition having been left at Bethel as Clark had too heavy a load to bring them up to-night. After dinner took my Tonks gun and with 7 cartridges, all I had, started out to try for cock. Put up five and killed four in seven shots. Shot behaved rather poorly, pointing fairly, but once when three birds jumped altogether from a spring hole giv- ing me a fine double shot of which, however, I killed only the first. The young birds fill the woods with their chirping and I long for my dust shot. July 26. Clear and warm with a good breeze. Spent most of the day about the house taking a stroll up into the pasture back of Abbotts in P.M. with my rifle to try for a shot at a woodchuck but saw none. Shot a bluebird at about 50 yds. Turdus swain- sonii, Zon albicollis, T.pallasii, Cont. borealis and a few others are still singing. Shot a Per.canadensis in im. plumage. July 27. Cloudy, commenced raining at about 10 A.M. and contin- ued till evening. Started after breakfast for a tramp to "the sluice" with Sargent, but the rain turned us back before we had