Wilton, Maine. 15 1871 Then floating islands of which thus were several in the lake and very singular and interesting formations of nature. Of a few rods only in extent, they are composed of interlaced roots and turfs, a gnarling surface, yielding several niches beneath very soft steps and occasionally giving way under the uneasy tread, they are covered with a growth of low blueberry bushes and on low we observed two of them [arch trees] some fifteen or twenty feet high; literally are they floating as the sun and fall with the ruts of the lake and one even broke loose from its mooring and drifted a mile or more. (Philema minor is said to be quite abundant here but we did not see it Gallinago Wilsoni is also abundant in the Autumn.) (Rhyacophillus setigerus, saw it near Bethel but did not detect it at the lake) 82. Tringoides macularius. Common 83. Anas obscura. Quite common. 84. Ay sponsa. Very common! 85. Lophodytes creafatus. D with common 86. Darnus argentatus. Saw them nearly every day; are said to breed abundantly on B. pond. This includes only those actually observed, many others of Darnus occur frequently at other seasons of the year and in similar localities. The number of ducks breeding here must be very large; indeed a party making a boat excursion up the Cambridge river stated that in one day they saw between one and two hundred of different species, many of them with broods of young. We found