26 MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1874. Shelby Co., Mass. down in an open buckberry pasture but the old hen which Shot found I pointed was the only bird that we could find with our two dogs though I am confident that we must have passed (many times within) a few yards of some of them. We started about 15 grouse in all the greatest number seen this year at Concord. Shot behaved very poorly making multitudes of false points and flinching ours most of his birds. The first birdwork that I started I lost most desperately by snapping both barrels of my empty gun having forgotten to put in the shells but I afterwards found I killed him. Anthus ludovicianus was all over the great meadows in flocks I only Oct. 24 Clear and cool with E. wind. In P.M. drove Bartow up to Belmont and sat in the buggy while he hunted old Dart not wishing to walk myself as I sprained one of my hips slightly yesterday. He flushed them grouse & a parson (Ardea herodias) but did not get any of them. Saw a fine & Pies within near the road 123 afterwards coming up shot it for me. Oct. 26 Clear warm and still. Started off after breakfast with C. Carter and tied on