35 UPTON, MAINE 1873 June 12. Started for Upton, Maine with H. A. Purdin where we arrived the afternoon of the 13th and spent a most pleasant two weeks. We return to Boston on June 28th. I collected principally from a boat 55 birds some of them good, and the nest eggs of T.swainsonii and E.traillii. July 17. This morning started again for Upton taking my Setter, Shot and three Guns, and arrived at Bethel at 5 P.M. On the train made the acquaintance of Mr. H. Hatton of Havana, Cuba, and had a long talk with him on shooting. At Bethel found an old schoolmate, Henry Reed, and passed most of the evening talking over old times. July 18. Left B. at 12, dinner at Poplar and reached the lake at 6:30 P.M. At Bethel heard Spiz.pusilla. In the evening a party of four Boston boys arrived, all gentlemen and good fellows, two of them Magee by name: they start to-morrow morning for Pamachury Lake from which place two New Yorkers have just "come out"; one of them a Mr. Carter. They had indifferent sport. July 19. Cloudy and rained nearly all day. In P.M. much to my surprise saw a large flock of peeps (sp. not cr.) accompanied by five Aeg.semipalmatus. Caught two trout. July 20. Sunday. Clear, cool and windy. Spent the day around the house: took a short paddle down river and saw three Ereunetes petrificatus, (got near enough to be sure) a Rhy.solitarius which lighted on the top of a stub 15 ft. high, and three Gam-getta flavipes. In the evening C.popetus were very thick flying around the house and lighting in the garden as in 1871. Two Mr. Fletchers "came out" to-day from Tyler cove with about