July 18, 1873 - Wotton, Maine. of March 2 and I started for Washington when I arrived March 3 & remained 7 days, sleeping by way of Phil. & New York. in each of which Places I stayed then or four day & called on most of the prominent orthologists. On the morning of the 27th March I received the paralysis fall from which I and Hill Muffin had confined to any room for weeks did little in the collecting line during the rest of the spring except a few birds which I shot along the wads from my buggy. June 12th I started for Wotton Me with H. A. Burdie while we arrived the afternoon of the 13 & spent a most pleasant & useful day. I collected principally from a boat 85 birds, some of them good and the rest bugs of J. swainsoni & E. trillii. This morning (July 17) started again for Wotton taking my Sister Shots & gun. I arrived at Bethel at 6 P.M. On the train made the acquaintance of Mr. H. Batters of Havana, Cuba; and had a long talk with him on Shooting. At Bethel found an old schoolmate Henry Reed & passed most of the evening talking over old times. July 18 Left B. at 12 o'clock at Parker & reached the lake at 6.30 P.M. At Bethel heard Mr. Priscilla. In the evening a party of 4 Boston boys arrived, all gentlemen & good fellows. They of them Magee by name; they start to tomorrow morning for Panamachony Bay, from which place a party of two N. Y. folks have just "come out"; one of them a Mr. Carter.