39 UPTON, MAINE 1873 August 1 - 2 the birds are evidently of not infrequent occurence here. Heard several Cont.borealis. I am now quite strong again. August 1. Cloudy and rained hard all day. Barstow went up to Megalloway in the boat this morning. I spent all the forenoon on the birds shot yesterday and mounted the H.lunifrons. In the P.M. Mr. Goodwin returned from a trip up the lake bringing me a snow white swallow, an albino, I think, of H.bicolor: un- fortunately as it was shot last Monday it was too far gone to skin so I carbolicised it. After supper while sitting on the piazza a Canada jay flies by and lit for a moment in a small birch tree: it is the first I have seen here and Mr. G. in- forms me that it is seldom observed in the summer. A large party came down from Tyler's cove bringing five Mergus Am. that they had shot: all were young birds about half grown. August 2. Started in the boat this morning at 7:30 and made the round trip getting home at 9:30 P.M. Had a most lovely day clear and still. The first stretch up the lake to the inlet is very beautiful, the scenery fine and the mountain outlines bold. At the inlet saw Sanborn and party: took on board a Messrs. Poland and Buffom. We then entered the mouth of the Androscoggin and ran down to Errol seeing many ducks of which I shot one, a L.cucullatus as it rose ahead of the boat: here we saw also a Fin.sparverius, a pair of G.flavipes and immense numbers of Rhy.solitarius: so thick indeed were these latter birds that greguently a dozen would start at once from the shore. The kingfishers were also in swarms and we must