12 
1876 . 
Bonasa umbolla, 
Middlesex County, Mass. 
(Dee.3) as v/ell as ever. We finally saw it strike into a 
pine at least a quarter of a mile from the place where 
it started, and upon going to the place found it nearly 
a hundred yards beyond. Both eyes were pierced by the 
shot one leg was broken and blood flov/ed from several 
wounds in the body. Another bird had both legs 
and the end of one v/ing nearly stripped of fieathers, yet 
it flew about the usual distance and started again from a 
pine \7ith nearly as much vigor as at first. Most of 
these Grouse were found in alder-runs. They flew direct 
ly to the thickets pines and generally alighted in th^ 
If we passed under, or nearly under, the tree the bird 
would usually out fly getting under way with marvelous 
rapidity. The crops of two which I examined contained 
chiefly clover leaves with a few cranberries and acorns. 
9. Shot a fine male in a swamp in Belmont. His cron 
berries of the privet and the wild- 
Shot a female in the Pine Swamp. 
Started throe in an alder run. They were lying with 
in a yards of ons another. The firsi rose Ute?- 
thi?d "ud!”*’ 
bettreen Robbins’s mills and 
Concord bagging six to tv/o guns. The day vas still and 
vrarm and most of these Grouse were found in very open 
situations. Several lay very closely. JrL aral 
started rose within four feet of his nose Thov oi-n ^ 
wonderfully tenacious of life at this season. All six 
witrL^*"^^ secured by being wing-tipped, though 
^ exception, all vrero more or less shot in the * 
body and one literally riddled with No. 7 shot one 
upon being shot at pitched headlong to the earth but 
When within four feet of it recovered hiiLjraL slik- 
the woods being marked by th,^:^®^ ‘glnf 
another, mortally wounded, stalked slowly over^the grou^J 
rveTs::r-eisfhL°TiiviL^:i- - 
h^j: --h fhf bi™ - ® -- 
each dovmward movement of the hta-nn ^ ^ ^ 
fan on the leavesTne^tt Hed b 
Jie would probably have hurdled orr*'^® ‘’®®” "ninjured 
of sight. Nearly all thl J , " *’i«hos out 
distance of pinei dliocUv ""‘^in flying 
trees. m such cLir unlLs tb” “^‘ghtedin the 
one the bird invariably flies Ibon ® ® 
him ' “’■os when you are nearly under 
