Opornis agilis 380 MASS. (Middlesex Co.) Thursday Sept. 28 Clear and a fine day with high wind. Off after breakfast with Dan, driving "Nap North." Just after passing Jos. Smiths a grous rose from an open field adjoining the road and flew into a bush on the roadside. As the horse approached it again it started again and keeping down the road a few rods turned sharply into the yard of a farm house and actually alighted on the top sail of an old bay rigging that was standing in front of the farmers door. As we approached it a third time hown it made across the road and alighted in a pine grove. Leaving the horse tied in the road we started after it but before we came to the place when we had made it down I flushed a fine large boy of quail from among the underbrush of huckleberry bushes. I let them go without shooting and a few rods further one put up the grouse and shot at it cutting out feathers, thinking it a good opportunity to break in "Dosh" I followed the quail about for over an hour allowing many fine shots at them, but finally when they had commenced to point I resolved to shoot one or two and after missing two single shots I made a double shot among the pines killing two Sep birds over a steady Point from Dosh. Dan also fired once and missed. Returning to the buggy we drew up to Hochgood's fields where "Nap" made a doubtful point on a woodcock which I killed as it rose. Here we also started a boy of quail which was not large than long sparrows. Got back to dinner, skinned the grebe'd woodcock in P.M.