80 UPTON, MAINE 1874 August 25 including a very young Empidonax which I think must be traillii. Heard a G.Phil. near an old camp and S. Saw the bird distinctly Fired a number of shots with my rifle at a very large Buteo bo- realis which kept sailing about over my head but did not succeed in hitting him. In the barn at the Cross place I had heard on our last trip some C.pelasgia twittering after dark and examin- ing the premises this morning I was pleased at discovering one of their nests built against one end up near the ridgepole. It was fastened against the flat face of the boards and differed not at all from the usual type. I have twice lately had a Trochilus colubris poise itself within a foot of the bright pur- ple sleeve of my cardigan jacket as I stood fishing evidently mistaking the garment for a bank of brilliant flowers and in neither case did it seem quite sure of its mistake until I moved and frightened it. Reached the house by 6 P.M. August 25. Clear and a fine day. Spent the whole of the fore- oon in skinning and making up my loon. It was not so tough a bird as the one shot last year, but I spent much time in wash- ing and cleaning off the blood. It proved a ♀ and weighed 8½ lbs. Late in P.M. took a turn up the swamp road on Cambridge river and shot 6 birds. One nearly adult Perisoreus and T.swainsonii (y.y. fall plumage), 1 Parus hud. (do.) 1 Sitta can. (do.) 2 Regulus satrapa (changing to fall plumage) All the young birds are fast getting out of the nestling plumage, but they also seem to be leaving here properly started on their S. migration by the almost frosty mights which we have had lately. Saw a flock of