19 UPTON, MAINE 1872 the woods were wet. Took 7 D.tigrina 5 ♀ and my first Hylatomus pilcatus a fine male which I killed in a high birch tree with a wire cartridge. It did not seem very shy. June 7 - 9 June 7 Clear and warm. Went up on the hill above Frost's. Took 5 G.philadelphia (2 ♀) and a Parus hudsonius. June 8 Rained so hard that we did not get out all day. June 9 Clear and cool. After breakfast put the skiff into the river above the dam and paddled up to the meadows making one carry of about 100 yds. and getting there at 3 P.M. The dis- tance is said to be three miles, but it is at least five. The "meadows" were a large natural heath, perhaps a mile long and half as far across with a stream winding down through the middle: owning, however, to the heavy rain falls lately, the water had risen over its banks to the depth of three or four feet and as we passed out from the dark,forest shaded stream into this beau- tiful little lake the scene was fine beyond description with towering mountains rising on all sides in the back ground, and the forest surface shading from the dark spruce and firs on their summits to the lighter green of the poplars and maples growing on the waters edge. Here however as everywhere in the wilderness the voices of old friends dispelled in part the wild- ess of the scene. The mellow trill of the Swamp sparrow came up from the bushes on either shore and the loud cheerful song of the Robin filled the echoing woods: a Marsh harrier was beating about over the submerged meadow and a large company of