Harporhynchus rufus
MASS. (Middlesex Co.) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
1875.
(Dec. 3 [December 3, 1875]) place where I rose, and going to this
same tree it was picked up dead
by one of the dogs nearly 100 yds
beyond. Upon examination we
found both eyes were shot through,
a leg broken, and blood flowing from
several wounds in the body.
Another bird had both legs fairly
shattered and the end of one wing
nearly denuded of feathers and
yet managed to fly about the
usual distance and started again
from a pine with nearly as much
vigor as at first. As a rule we
started our birds in the first instance
in the alder runs and still more
invariably they, flew directly for
the thickest pines and took to tree.
If we passed under or nearly under
the tree on which the bird sat it
would take flight, getting under way
too with marvellous rapidity. The crops
of two examined contained principally 
clover leaves with a few cranberries &
acorns. Saw some six or eight im. [immature]
Pinicola enuncelator, and shot, to
my great surprise a Harporhynchus
rufus which started out from under
a pine shrub. It was in good
plumage & quite fat but had one  of the wings broken & grown together again
The country through which we hunted
is [delete]a[/delete] most wild & picturesque
nearly all pine clad & without a house
or cultivated field, in miles of distance
Bag W. B. [William Brewster] grouse 4. M. [James C. Melvin] grouse (1) N. [Robert B. Nesbitt] [grouse] (1) 
I fired 15 shots & Jim 14