Butio Pennsylvanicus, Tetrao Canadensis Note of E. H[ar]nutis. Wednesday June 14 Cloudy all day with frequent showers in P.M. Went out on the Yelva path with Stow in the morning and hunted hard for nests but found nothing excepting a M. melodia in Abbott's field. He was sunk in a hollow in the ground in a clover field. She g[ot] fatted off almost under my foot but like most of the birds her showed little consequent concern. Then were 5 eggs which had been incubated about 8 days. Haverington found a nest of this bird yesterday with six fresh eggs. This is a large number than I have heard of before. I shot a very fine adult & Butio Pennsylvanicus. The pair rose from the ground on the edge of Abbott's field and lit on dead stubs. I swelled up hardly to within about 40 yds of them and shot him. She g[ot] flew a short distance only and I might have secured her too if I had had another heavy charge with me. As it was I shot well at her, and failed to kill. Both birds kept up their shrill whistling cry as I approached them. I often see them sailing high up in the sky in pairs uttering almost invariably this unmistakable note. The notes of the & were not larger than 0. Her stomach was filled with bones of small mammals and the remains of Coleoptera. Meeded a single St. p[ump]kin on the Yelva road. Just after entering the woods from Abbott's field I spied a fine & Tetrao Canadensis at the path. She out moment she rose with a fall flutter & lit on an elder bow down. I watched him some time and noticed that his red comb over the eyes was very distinguished; that he held his tail right [?] with