A Partridge Don Quixote 



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so far. An account of Biddy appeared in Bird-Lore for 1918 (p. 492). Nothing 

 has been seen of her since the autumn of 1919. 



Still a third 'crazy' Partridge was discovered by the writer during early 

 October of the present year near the village of Lewis in Essex County. My 

 father and I were driving in a Ford roadster and had halted the car on a back 



A GROUSE IN THE HAND 



country road in order to admire the autumn foliage. The motor had been left 

 running. We had sat for only a minute or two when I heard a rustling among 

 the dead leaves at the edge of the woods beside the road. I supposed it a chip- 

 munk, but turned my head slowly and was astonished to see a Partridge run- 

 ning straight toward us. When at a distance of about fifteen feet the bird 

 (which seemed to be a female or young male) took his stand on top of a log 

 and stood in a rigid attitude eyeing us closely. Only a thin screen of maple 



