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1872
June 12-14
June 12 Went up to the E. trielli marsh with
North & took 9 specimens beside a C. bonalis etc.
" 13 When I went, Visited the rails flycatcher again and secured 10r also a B. G. Philadelphia)
and 2 Guioeca ludoviciana.)
" 14 Started shortly after breakfast and desiring
to spend my last day as pleasantly as possible
took the skiff and getting a tub behind the
thimboat cast loose outside the point in the
broad of the lake and spent the forenoon
in paddling leisurely back hunting along the
edge through the reeds. Was much delighted
at happening to start across a B. Vreede, avete
the first that I had ever been alive. It was
searching a fallen log for insects & I had no
difficulty in approaching & shooting it.
Herd also for the first time the note of
Loothdytes cruentatus a singular rolling
quintal cry on my word. Packed up our Baggage
for the afternoon putting all our skins in
one trunk & the clothing etc in the other.
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Birds observed at at Upton Me not included
in the list of 1871 with additional observations
on the others.)
1. Zannunculus Sparavis, Saw a female in the
same place nearly every day and she undoubtedly
had a nest in one of the tall stads on which
she usually perched)
(Acceptus fincus, Saw a pair sitting on a tall stub
June 10.) Annual Individuals 1872
2. " Cooperi, a single bird flying June 9.
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