1876 
Ortyx virginianus. 
(Dec.14. 
1880. 
Nov* 19. 
Middlesex County, Mass. 
Hunted over the same ground as yesterday. The 
Quail now thoroughly frightened, lay like stones when 
scattered and even when left for several hours were 
afraid to call. 
Shot a feevy several from a bevy at the east end of 
the Willows (Belmont). Like some killed on the same 
ground December 14,1875, they were all exceedingly largo 
birds, and as on that ocaqion, took exceptionally long 
flights and invariably settled in the meadow grass out¬ 
side the bushes where they lay very closely. It v/as ox- 
ilorating sport pursuing them. In the keen frosty air 
the fringe on my setter’s tail became hung v^ith beads 
of ice that tinkled musically as he galloped to and fro 
across the brovm meadow. 
