Concord, Mass.
1899
April 9
(No 2)
  Edward W. Emerson told us this afternoon that on the morning
of March 27th as he was dressing he heard a sound which he
took to be the violent slamming of a door in the next room. On
entering this room, a bed chamber in the second story at the N.E. 
end of the house, he noticed a tuft of feathers clinging to the
glass of one the east windows and the next instant he perceived
a Partridge standing on the roof of the piazza within a few
feet of the windows. The bird saw him almost immediately
and flew swiftly off towards the Assabet. The snow on the
roof was marbled all over with its footprints. A few feathers
attached to a bit of thin skin which has dried on the glass
were shown me as proof of this interesting story. The day
was bright and the sun an hour or more high at the time.
If this was a case of "Partridge madness" it is the first
instance which, so far as I am aware, has ever been noticed in
spring. Partridges were seen before & after the above date budding 
in some apple trees on the opposite side of the road. They
come, of course, from the woods across the Assabet[.]
[margin]A "mad"
Partridge[/margin]
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