1873 August. Aug. 9 Upton, Maine. What cool & fine day. After breakfast went out back of the barn and took right birds the last two young R.castanea on a nest in a curious spotted plumage. The greater tarsus of a S Ch. finches that this morning exhibit a state of the highest development I got full grown young an not uncommon. Saw a single Cuck. one the first time any arrived. At noon after Windsor arrived with a brace of handsome setters: he claimed a very nice fellow. After dinner I took my rifle & made five successful shots in succession at an average of 50 yds. Killing 3 kingfisher, a cedar bird & a frog, the best shooting I have ever done. Mr. Godkin also shot a kingfisher with it at about 70 yds. Sunday Aug. 10 What warm & pleasant. Looped around the barn in the morning. In P.M. took a sail down to the mouth of the river with Smith. " 11 What rather hot & fine day. After breakfast went out behind the barn & shot a R.tigrina y.y, a Passus hudsonicus y.y (flying) & two Sp. various out. Hake pike is getting quite common here & one indication that the migrations are commencing as it is far in the breeding season. The note of P.hudsonicus is not to be mistaken for that of Patridge, it is shorter (show heard only one note besides the hissing chip common to all of the