Haapsosynchus rufus 239 MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1875. (Dec. 3) place where I saw, and going to this farm 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 shot through and the end of one was merely covered with feathers and yet managed to fly about the usual distance and started again from a pin with nearly as much vigor as at first. As a rule we started our birds in the first instance in the older runs and still more invariably they flew directly for the thickest pines and took to tree. If we passed under or near under the tree on which the bird shot it would take flight, getting under way too with marvellous rapidity. The crops of two examined contained principally clove leaves with a few cranberries & decors. Saw horn tip or right in, Pinicola enucleator and shot to my great surprise a Haapsosynchus rufus which started out from under a pine shrub. It was far too fat and good plumage & perfectly fat condition. The country through which we hunted is a most wild & picturesque nearly all pine clad & without a box or cultivated field in miles of distance Bass W.B. grouse 4, M. grouse(?) (1) I fired 15 shots at Gein 14