336 MAINE, (L. Umbagog.) 1876. Thursday Start for Wpton Main D. tigrina May's Clear and a fine day with high N.W. wind. Left Boston for the lake at 9 A.M. and arrived at Bethel at 5 P.M. Had supper at Barton (Shand?) and left Bethel at 6, arriving at the Lake house at Wpton at 11 P.M. after a cold but pleasant drive. The roads were so bad a condition that one was obliged to walk his horses near all the latter half of the way. Saw a large D. tigrina on five miles below Bethel and heard night hawks at Poplar farm. Friday May 26 Clear and warm in the middle of the day. Very cold early this morning, water freezing to the thickness of window glass. Spent most of the forenoon getting our things in order. Went out a little while in the woods behind the house and shot a fine D. Picoides Arctus. In P.M. took a walk one to the stone clearing and I shot five birds: 2 pair of P. Arctus, a ? D. Blackburnia) and two D. maculosa. S. shot a D. tigrina & a fine S. virens. The season is remarkably backward but not a leaf having started in the woods as yet but nearly all the birds seem to be here. As to day Deadworts tigrina maculosa virens Blackburn Coronata ? P. fusculus, Sethe Saticula? Sp. vares. D. Ceruleona, Y. Swainsoni