10 
1874 
Bonasa umbella, 
Middlesex County, Mass. 
25. 
Nov* 9« 
18, 
Dec, 5. 
30, 
1875, 
Fob. 10. 
Apr. 27. 
May 27. 
June 14. 
Started twelve at Concord. 
One started by my dog flew up and alighted in a 
birch v/hera I shot it. 
Started four over the same ground hunted yesterday; 
several birds left yesterday were, however, gone to-day* 
a fact which-confirms Melvin’s idea that thev have alreadv 
begun their migration. 
Shot a female in a cedar tree in Watertown. She sat 
perfectly still with out stretched neck and feathers 
drawk close. 
4 .U which I found in mixed cedars and birches near 
the Waverly mill-pond, lay as closely as Woodcock my 
seibtor getting steady points on all but one This 
unusual behavior was probably due to the fact that a rain 
last ni ght had thoroughly wetted the leaves and under- 
grov/th. 
i” Western; they trere nearly all 
found in alder runs and most of them lay nearly as well 
Quail. In one place our dogs made five consecutive 
points on birds in a little open meadow among tussocks. 
Started about twenty in Lincoln. 
We started forty-eight in Concord and killed ten. 
Many of them were found in very open ground. One which 
was dxstxnctly seen to alight in a thick white pine could 
TiL '''' f’rightened out probably apprecia- 
concealment afforded by the thick bran- 
One shot through the head towered to a great 
ight and fell within a hundred yards of us. 
Tf T, at Watertown 
It had haunted this locality all winter. 
One drumming on a stone v/all in Lexington. I 
inrifthr ”‘“’•“^''8 an Idtdr found him drunn,- 
onl in'"’®'!. I romombor hearing 
one (perhapwothe same bird) four years ago. i believe^ 
--y sca^:::: 
A male drumming. 
crying for admission at a closori ^ 
one chick which was apparently about a week-old! 
