diff --git a/third_party/2and3/google/protobuf/message.pyi b/third_party/2and3/google/protobuf/message.pyi
index 3fc8c33d2..0b3e15258 100644
--- a/third_party/2and3/google/protobuf/message.pyi
+++ b/third_party/2and3/google/protobuf/message.pyi
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from typing import Any, Sequence, Optional, Text, Tuple
+from typing import Any, Sequence, Optional, Tuple
 
 from .descriptor import (
     DescriptorBase,
@@ -28,14 +28,19 @@ class Message:
     def SerializeToString(self, deterministic: bool = ...) -> bytes: ...
     def SerializePartialToString(self, deterministic: bool = ...) -> bytes: ...
     def ListFields(self) -> Sequence[Tuple[FieldDescriptor, Any]]: ...
-    def HasField(self, field_name: Text) -> bool: ...
-    def ClearField(self, field_name: Text) -> None: ...
-    def WhichOneof(self, oneof_group) -> Optional[Text]: ...
     def HasExtension(self, extension_handle): ...
     def ClearExtension(self, extension_handle): ...
     def ByteSize(self) -> int: ...
     @property
     def Extensions(self) -> _ExtensionDict: ...
 
+    # Intentionally left out typing on these three methods, because they are
+    # stringly typed and it is not useful to call them on a Message directly.
+    # We prefer more specific typing on individual subclasses of Message
+    # See https://github.com/dropbox/mypy-protobuf/issues/62 for details
+    def HasField(self, field_name: Any) -> bool: ...
+    def ClearField(self, field_name: Any) -> None: ...
+    def WhichOneof(self, oneof_group: Any) -> Any: ...
+
     # TODO: check kwargs
     def __init__(self, **kwargs) -> None: ...