90 UPTON, MAINE 1874 September 10 - 11 unrecognized by me. It resembles somewhat the note of Turdus Swainsonii, but I think is not that either. Whatever maybe its author the species must be a large (numerous) one as I hear them nearly every clear night. Warblers are getting very scarce in the woods with the exception of B.striata and coronata. In P.M. wrote a few letters and skinned a bird or two. S. and B. went down on the march and B. killed a snipe, the only one that they saw. September 10. Fair day, but very sultry and smoky with S. wind. Took the steamboat in the morning and got off at B. point. Paddled ashore at Sargents landing and beat a small tract of corn for cock. We soon started some birds in very hard shooting, and I bagged 4 in 9 shots. S. did not fire at all. We started at the utmost not over 5 birds. Only one or two of them whistled, they, for the most part, rising with a heavy flutter and going off in silence. They were nearly through the moult. Afterwards beat over a good extent of promising looking ground without starting a feather. Paddled home, I shooting a ring neck by the way, and reached the house by noon. In the P.M. beat over along the Tyler road and started a brood of [illegible].grouse missing two flying shots and killing a bird on the ground. At the mouth of the river this morning saw two Falco sparverius chasing one another across the cove, flying easily and not unlike swallows. Saw also several very large flocks of Quiscalus purpureus. September 11. Clear and a lovely day. After breakfast tramped