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flush the Hawk. I soon flushed h^.r 

 again and upon arriving found she had 

 almost entirely plucked her prey but 

 had scarcely begun her feast. Thii 

 time I was not quite so foolish as lo 

 leave the Partridge but carried it 

 along back where I had left the traps. 

 After getting the traps I went back to 

 the spot where the feathers wer^^ 

 scattered, pushed a stick through the 

 body of the Partridge and down in the 

 ground so that it could not be carried 

 away again and then set the three 

 traps as close to the Partridge as pos- 

 sible 



A few feathers were sprinkled over 

 the traps, then I went away to work. 

 An hour later I returned but appai^nt- 

 ly Mrs. Hawk had not been back. At 

 five o'clock in the evening I made 

 another trip to the traps and foun? 

 Mrs. Hawk with one foot in a trap 

 She dragged the trap and horseshoe 

 weight several feet before I picked Iier 

 up. She proved to be an adult and 

 was well marked. 



The MaTsh Hawk is by far the com- 

 monest of the larger Hawks found 

 here. The Red-tail and Red-shoulder 

 are strangely lacking or very un- 

 common. I have only taken three 

 sets of eggs of the Marsh Hawk. One 

 set of three well incubated eggs were 

 considerably marked with brown, 

 while another set of three fresh eggs 

 were unmarked. One egg was of a 

 handsome light blue color while the 

 other two were of a dull pale color. 

 Still another set of five fresh eggs 

 were of a very pale blue and were 

 very dirty. 



The Hungarian Partridge is a 

 phenomenal success here in Paulding 

 County and will probably equal or ex- 

 ceed the Quail in numbers in this vi- 

 cinity. Three farmers have reported 

 to me that they have killed as many 

 sitting birds by clipping their heads 

 while mowing hay, 



Mr. Lester Sillen took me to a nest 



containing nine eggs of the usual 

 brownish buff color but which were 

 tinted very noticeably with blue. This 

 nest was found by an oat shock while 

 threshing oats in July 1921. 



Homer F. Price, 



Payne, Ohio. 



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BIRDS OBSERVED AT EAST LEAKE, 



GOOCHLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 



IN JUNE 1921 



Goochland County lies almost exact- 

 ly in the center of Virginia. The 

 James River is its southern boundary. 

 The topography of the County is roll- 

 ing but not mountainous. 



I was the guest of Dr. and Mrs. L. 

 H. Leake at their hospitable plantation 

 home at East Leake in the extreme 

 northwestern part of the County from 

 June 11 to 15, 1921, and during this 

 time observed fifty species of birds, all 

 of whicli can safely be counted as sum- 

 mer residents there. 



East Leake is merely the destina- 

 tion of the post office for that region; 

 it is not so much as a village. 



