Near Wareham, Mass.
1900.
June 12-14
(No 16)
  50. Buteo borealis.- This is the common breeding Buteo
of the region. Mr. Bangs has found its nest repeatedly.
I saw two or three birds
during my stay.
  51. Bonasa umbellus.- According to Mr. Bangs the Partridge
although less numerous than formerly (owing to the
very general transference of its favorite haunts the
larger, wooded or briny swamps into cranberry bogs) is
still common. We saw only one bird during my stay -
a hen accompanied by several chicks in a wood road
near E. Wareham. The old bird came running about
passing and repassing close to the wheels of our wagon
making the usual puppy-like whining & "bristling up"
her feathers. She was deep reddish-brown in general 
coloring & her tail appeared to be gray or grayish.
  52. Colinus virginianus .- We heard five different males
whistling bob-white while driving through the scrubby
woods E. of Wareham on the 12th. I started a single
bird near the Bangs' house on the 14th. Mr. Bangs
tells me they were very numerous in the autumn
of 1898 but that most of them perished during the
following severe winter.
  [Zenaidura macroura .- Mr Bangs says that this 
species was common & generally distributed about
Wareham a few years ago but that it has since
disappeared. He has not seen one this season.]
  53. Ring-necked Pheasant. - A few of these Pheasants were
liberated near the Bangs' place two or three years
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