76 UPTON, MAINE 1874 August 18 - 20 its surface flying easily along and occasionally stooping down like a gull but in no instance in the course of an hours obser- vation did I see one actually touch the surface. Upon dissec- tion I found their stomachs fill entirely with insects: prin- cipally grasshoppers with a few Cooptera and Diptera. All were quite fat but their bodies omitted none of that salty fishy smell peculiar to the marine species. The only note that I heard was a shrill and rather feeble kee-ep keep. Alive they looked from every side nearly black and about as large as night hawks. Saw a few Rhyacophilus solitarius during the day and five or six ospreys, the later is a very shy bird here. A Providence gentleman took some fine trout to-day at Sturdevants. August 19. Clear and cool. Spent the A.M. about the house skinning birds and etc. In P.M. took a turn up on the hill with S. Opposite Peaseleys' we found a flock of about a dozen pigeons and I fired three shots at them flying without success though I took feathers from two of my birds. S. killed one sitting. Saw two S.Phil. and shot a young Scol.ferrugineus, do. Ceryle alcyon and Hy.ludoviciana. Cicur hudsonius is not an uncommon bird here. I see them nearly every day. In the evening there were several large arrivals at the Lake house: among them Dr. Amler and Drs. Greenough and Green of Boston. August 20. Cloudy and rained most of A.M. Spent the first part of the day in the house skinning birds and etc. Late in P.M. started up on "the hill" with Stone. Opposite Peaseleys' we found a flock of about twenty-five pigeons and got a number of