44 UPTON, MAINE 1873 August 12 - 13 August 12. Clear and rather warm. After breakfast had a horse saddled, rode over to the skiff and started up C. river with Mr. Godwin. The morning was lovely and birds seemed to absolutely swarm. Parus hud. and H.peregrina were abundant, the latter in large companies with other warblers flitting about in the bushes overhanging the water. A short distance up river a Buteo pennsylvanicus adlt. tried to pass us and I shot it: further on a Night heron and a Wood duck rose together as we rounded a bend. I shot the former with the first and the latter with the second barrel. About 2 miles up we saw a woodcock running along the mud on the margin of the river and on going ashore at another place much to our surprise found the mud both on the bank and in the alders all bored up by these birds. On the way down I shot a young whistler and made a bad "muff" on a pair of black ducks, the first barrel missing fire and the second only wounding. After getting back went out to the spring behind the barn and shot a cock, at the second rise, missing both barrels the first. Shot a kingfisher with my rifle at fully 130 yds. August 13. Clear and pleasant. Lounged around the house all day with Barstow who came down from Megalloway last night. In P.M. shot a kingfisher with my rifle at about 100 yds. Mr. Smith brought in a pair of young Tetrao canadensis in an interesting plumage, and Mr. Godwin an Ae.fuscus, all which they gave me. The crops of T.can. upon dissection I found to contain fir needles, raspberries, blueberries, checkerberries and fir buds.