not heard throughout the [Max] woods in Autumn to not wanting (but) this having its unknown author was especially noisy on all sides: I think it must be some insect. We also heard off some distance in the gloomy depths of the forest a single bird cry that was new to us both: concluded that it was made by a mammal of some kind. I heard also much to my surprise a [Hyla] piping industriously near the lake shore: noted a few shortly after my arrival in July but had noticed other times. The ferns have nearly all turned brown but otherwise the woods are still nearly as green and luxuriant as ever, and are filled with wild flowers among which the golden rod & several fine species of asters are most prominent. Sept. 14 Clear and nearly the most buttery day of the season. Started down river at about [10] A.M. and paddled to [T.] mouth. When S. shot a Gambetta and one of two, & I found both barrels at long range after a Podopodiceps: we had been chasing it for some time when ito our great surprise it bow directly & easily out of the water chasing it's surface in a few yards although there was not so much as a breath of wind. After flying about 600 yds it lit but we were unable to find it