87 UPTON, MAINE 1874 September 4. - 5 aboard and a gentleman in his party gave me a Pod.podiceps in very singular plumage. I think it is a young bird. Coming down the lake the wind blew almost a gale and to my surprise nearly every loon that we saw would rise on wing easily at our approach. They tell me that it is impossible for them to rise in a dead calm. Hirundo horreorum is still with us. At the outlet was very sure that I heard Tringa Bairdii, but may have been mistaken. September 4. Clear, cool and a most lovely day. After break- fast took the Tyler road with S. and walked over to the farm. Found small birds very scarce. In the larch swamp I shot a thrush and going in to pick him up came suddenly upon an old cock spruce grouse. Standing in a little knoll amid a clump of bunch berries with a sunbeam lighting up his dark plumage he presented a most beautiful appearance and I looked at him several moments before shooting. Killed a ♀ D.caerulecens and a few other worthless birds and came home meeting on the way Henry Douglass who gave me a fine y.y. Tetrao Can. which he had killed. Spent the P.M. in skinning the grouse and the birds shot yester- day. The marsh is now nearly as dry as last year and herons etc. getting very abundant. September 5. Clear, cool and a fine day. Took the boat up lake in the morning and got off at the outlet. As I was arranging things in my boat a large trout rose repeatedly near me taking each time a dead moth, numbers of which lay dead on the surface. Paddling into the river went ashore and beat nearly the whole