77 UPTON, MAINE 1874 August 21 - shots at them. I brought down two from on wing and S. shot one from a tree. They were quite tame and were attracted there by the blueberries and raspberries. Their flight is I think at times more rapid than any bird I am acquainted with and their habit of scaling and twisting when pasing through the woods makes them very hard to hit. Took also two G.Phil. (one adult ♂) and three Picus villosus and an adult ♀ Tetrao Can. The latter I flushed from a clump of rasberry bushes in the open pasture several rods from the woods which were hard wood growth: quite an unique haunt for this bird. She rose with a magnifi- cent burst and hummed off for the woods in fine style. I fired a dust squib a her on wing and hit her fairly but the small shot had little effect on her and I was obliged to follow her into the woods where I shot her through the head as she sat on a log. Properly educated and in a good shottng country I think this species would make a fine game bird. August 21. A.M. clear and hot. P.M. rainy. Started up the hill after breakfast taking my Tonks gun. Beat all the forenoon for game and shot three pigeons, two of them croos shots flying. Killed also a fine y.y. G.Phil. and a Hy.ludovicana. The for- mer I came suddenly upon as he was washing in a brook and watched him for some time before shooting. Humming birds have become very abundant within a few days. S. was out and killed a very young warbler which I think is D.tigrina. In P.M. skinned our birds. August 22. Clear cool and a very fine day with a strong bracing