2 Upton, Maine 1871 Poplar town at Nursery when we record two & (pume 10) Why it did not occur at the lake I do not understand as the alder bines in favorite resort were there abundant. "The country at Upton was for the most part covered by the principal forest: this on high ground consisted of a growth of noble green trees interspersed with beech and white birch with occasionally poplars and maples. Swamps covered with a growth of white cedar were also frequent and in a few localities a second growth of fir and larch the favorite resort of Peris, tigrina and Hel. pirgrina. The immense tracts of second growth birch are striking a feature in the scenery about the forks of the Kennebec were then totally wanting. Springs of ice cold water are very hard to be found in the woods but the streams and lakes had all, that yellow cast, common to flowing water in Maine, and so different from the crystal clearness of the White mountains brooks. The shores of the lake have been periodically flooded for many years by dams at the different outlets, and the trees con- servatively killed by an excess of water standing in immense forests of bare shaped "stubs" present a most curious and unique appear- ance and furnish a nesting home to many kinds of His. bird's which bred in the densest Wood jockers holes and natural cavities. Several species of Ducks also bred in the "stubs" as well as Luis versicolor. The following is a list of the species we observed.