344 MAINE. (L. Umbagog.) July 1876. Sunday July 2nd Clear and very hot with very light S wind. Off after breakfast with S. taking the boat and paddling up to Stone's whm we left him and going ashore took the Ellinwood path and went then through the forenoon. I took 14 birds the best D. Black burnise 4, D. castaneo 2, Cathtia Cen. 1, S phy. versis 2, Othres Poltarius /ote. I shot a very fine S Sphyraicis breaking the tip of his wing only. Upon picking him up he set up a perfectly deafing clear screaming continuously and so loudly that he might have been heard a guarter of a mile off. This soon brought up a 2 juvenile his mate which I shot. In a few moments more birds of all kinds came trooping up and standing in one spot I shot down three more. One was very fierce and spirited raising the beautiful feathers of the crown and hammering my hand with his bill as much as to nearly draw blood. The Cathtia was a Q and dissection showed them 2 eggs all larger than O and the viriduct so molten that these must have already been laid. Saw two My. Crinitus. Along this path woodpeckers jumping typistoms have made great havoc & I saw an old stump furoowed into the core the furrows 4 in wide 6 feet long. Heard the only Poecnts gram. that I had seen here this year, on the Stone farm. Coming home found a nest of Pies villorus in a small tub, not more than 3 ftm the water. I hammered on it & the S. came at I heard young inside making a soft twittering but I shall investigate further. Happed out also a nest of Hirsudo Brestie with 2 eggs. Saw a Golaphes looking out of her hole. The nest of the Redden