Lake Umbagog journals, 1871-1916 (inclusive)
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Bonasa umbellus togata. MAINE, (L. Umbagog.) Bonasa umbella togata 1885 Oct. 9 Very scarce, only a few killed, and then without exception adults. The little must have killed all the young. On Oct. 16 I heard three drumming in the swamps bordering Cambridge River; the first about noon in an alder swamp where the warm sunshine flooded his retreat, The second at sunset among dark thicket growing spruces on a hillside where immense mossy logs were piled on one another in great confusion, The third in open hardwood timber after it had became nearly dark and where an Owl (Bubo vir)