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UPTON, MAINE
1872
June 11 - 14
filled with E.traili and took 11 specimens. Shot also a G.
philadelphia and a pair of By.Cyania.
June 12 Went up to the E.trailii swamp with Ruth and took 9
specimens besides a C.borealis etc.
June 13 Clear and warm. Visited the Trails flycatchers again
and secured 10 also a G.philadelphia and 2 Guiraca ludoviciana.
June 14 Started shortly after breakfast and desiring to spend
my last day as pleasantly as possible took the skiff and getting
tow behind the steamboat, cast loose outside the point in the
broad of the lake and spent the forenoon in paddling leisurely
back, skiting along the edge through the stubs. Was much de-
lited at happening to run across a Picoides arcticus the
first that I had ever seen alive. It was searching a fallen
log for insects and I had no difficulty in approaching and
shooting it. Heard also for the first time the note of Lopho-
dytes cucullatus a singular rolling guttural cry and very loud.
Packed up our baggage in the afternoon, putting all our skins
in one trunk and the clothing and in the other.