2 UPTON, MAINE 1871 The country at Upton was for the most part covered by the primeval forest: this on high ground consisted of a growth of noble spruce trees interspersed with beech and white birch with occasionally poplars and maples. Swamps covered with a growth of white cedar were also frequent and in a few localities a second growth of firs and larch the favorite resort of Peris. tigrina and Hel. prigrina. The immense tracts of second growth birch so striking a feature in the scenery about the Forks of the Kennebec, were here altogether wanting. Springs of ice cold water were everywhere to be found in the woods but the water of the streams and lakes all, that yellow cast, common to flowing water in Maine, and so different from the cristal clearness of the White mountain rivers. The shores of the lake have been periodically flowed for many years by dams at the different outlets, and the trees killed by an excess of water standing in immense forests of bare naked "stubs" present a most curious and unique appearance and furnish a nesting home to multitudes of Hir. bicolor which breed in the deserted Woodpecker holes and natural cavities. Several species of Ducks also breed in the "stubs" as well as Quis. versicolor. The following is a list of the species we observed.