85 UPTON, MAINE 1874 September 1 quickly through the woods and are not always easy to get. His bird was wing broken and when approached screamed loudly and bit fiercely, but with to little strength to cause paid. The others seemed to pay little or no heed to its cries. The fall plumage of most species of birds is now complete. The small birds are becoming scarce and are almost exclusively in flocks. Spent the P.M. in skinning our birds. J. monhermer and Walter Bracket arrived to-day. September 1. Clear with very strong N. wind. Feeling rather tired did not go out this morning but staid in my room writing and etc. In P.M. took my boat and went down river alone. At the second bend saw a sandpiper running on the mud and firing at it, it rose uttering a single mellow tweet and flew a short distance and dropped dead. Picking it up I was delighted to find that I had got a very beautiful specimen of T.bairdii,the first I had ever seen aliwe. Noticed nothing peculiar in its action excepting that it ran rather more rapidly than most of the genus. Continuing on down river I saw a pair of black duck feeding in a muddy creek and stalking them I killed one on the water and the other as it rose. Was quite surprised to find that the first was quite blind in both eyes, the pupil being opaque and white. I next came across a small flock of peeps and ring necks (A.semipal) and shot one of the latter at one discharge. Also killed a Rhy.solitarius and a Gambetta Mel. the latter at very long range. Stone went over to the Tyler place in A.M. and made a good bag, H.per., H.rufic., D.castanea, D.Penn., etc.