Anas obscura (dusky or black duck), once in East Branch.
Anas sponsa (summer or wood duck), everywhere.
Fuligula albeola (spirit duck or dipper), common.
Colymbus glacialis (great northern diver or loon), in all the lakes.
Mergus Merganser (buff-breasted merganser or sheldrake), common on lakes and rivers.
A swallow; the night-warbler (?) once or twice.
V. QUADRUPEDS
A bat on West Branch; beaver skull at Grand Lake; Mr. Thatcher ate beaver with moose on the Caucomgomoc. A muskrat on the last stream; the red squirrel is common in the depths of the woods; a dead porcupine on Chamberlain road; a cow moose and tracks of calf; skin of a bear, just killed.