84 UPTON, MAINE 1874 August 30 - 31 and I killed my first three birds in good style, afterwards missing three rather hard shots. In P.M. B. went down in the marsh and shot two Gambetta melanoleuca, a ring neck, August 30. (Sunday) Clear and a fine day. Had a heavy thunder shower about sunset. Spent the day about the house. Capt. A. Ficket informs me that Sciurus Carolinensis was one year (about 1860) very abundant on the Megalloway where numbers were shot: a few were also seen about the same time at Errol, N.H. Both since and previous to that time none have been seen. August 31. Clear and warm. Started out immediately after break- fast with S. taking the Tyler road. Found birds rather scarce but I made a fair bag notwithstanding, 10 birds in all. The best were Vireo Phil. 1 (♀ y.y.), Antros.vociferus 1 (adult ♂) D.caerulescens 2 (♂ & ♀), D.blackburniae 1 (y.y.♀ in very unique plumage), Sitta Can. and Colaptes auratus (y.y. ♂). The vireo was in nearly the same place as those taken on the 29th: nothing new observed concerning it. The whippoowill I started near the Tyler opening in a scattered second growth of birch on burnt land: it was perfectly silent and I killed it at a very hard cross shot, flying. Shot also a D.striata and saw a number of others. The Colaptes had quite distinct black check patches though its dissection was so carefully made by both S. and my- self and the ovaries so conspicuous that there was not the slightest room for doubt as to the identity of its sex. S. got a Perisoreus from a little company of three which we both pur- sued. Though superlatively tame they nevertheless move quite