Aug. 1873 Upton, Maine. [illegible] which let a moment in the middle of the gun, then found us at a lightening speed turning & doubling I ar both find but missed. Just at sunset I shot a white yellow by that tried to fly by one. Aug. 29 Clear & warm. After breakfast started up & row with Capt Perkins, for the space of three or four hours enjoyed myself to the utmost as air glided plentifully through the forest shaded stretches of that wild & beautiful little stream. Made very successful shots killing a wood duck Two pigeons & a fish hawk without missing on the way down was much pleased at running across a small porcupine which was drinking on the shore. Saw several amocapillus but think I never saw any, if not all gone. Camp flourishing & hardy respected, but have seen no signs of E. trailli. On P.M. shined the bird shot yesterday. Aug. 30 Clear & warm with S. wind, I'm for noon Barston & I pulled down to the mouth of the river separating he drove a number of ducks over us & I fired six shots getting home only one bird as several of my cartridges would fire & put me out. On the way back B. drove out another flock of musquarries from the upper pond & I made a good double shot dropping both birds but losing my own tipped in the high grove. I also shot a falco columbine; B. & Cotton. In P.M. we paddled down to the mouth again & hailed from there, clear hauled,