October Vitis 230 MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1875. Nov. 18 Clear still and a fine day. I'm left his old dog Prime with me for trial and this morning I drove up to the hill with Ston and put up the horse in an old barn on Pleasant St. On the way we saw a fine [illegible] in the Archibutes in the Lagopus plumage, joined over the fields below Belmont. Beat up the Belmont road and across Prospect St. to Cotton's run, the old dog flushing several grouse out of range on the way. Finally he found a bevy of 5 quail in the Cotton run and as they rose I shot one. Got back to the house by 11:44. W.B. Quail! Nov. 19 Clear and another fine day, Yhr. 18° at noon. Took old Prime again this morning, and with S. drove up to Browns when we put up the horse. Beat the Cotton run and the swamps behind Chenery's also the whole Elmets brook valley without starting a quail. We however started a pair of grouse from a patch of briars & willow bushes in the middle of a perfectly open field, the whole available cover not extending left in extent; Ston went by this with Thicket literally within a few feet and after he had got nearly out of gun shot the two birds Son Schind his was much surprised to see a large striped snake (C. vitis) in perfect but a vigor and as lively as in June.