Concord, Mass.
1909
March 19
(No 4)
  Spent afternoon in Birch Field where the cart path
leaves it to enter the woods lying between it and the Farm.
I found (about 4 P.M.) a great quantity of Partridge feathers, apparently
nearly if not quite all that had belonged to a fine old
gray-tailed, black-ruffed cock perhaps the one that has
drummed for so many years on the wall in Barrett Run.
He had evidently been seized among some dense young
pines bordering the east side of the path. Here I found
his ruffs and twenty rectrices besides many of the
body feathers. Another large pile of feathers, chiefly 
from his sides and breast, lay in the middle of the
path and among these were his entrails which seemed
to be entire although somewhat buried and matted together.
The upper part of his skull and a small fragment of bone
lay on the western edge of the path with his primaries
secondaries and various other feathers. Here, apparently,
Ruffed Grouse killed & eaten by large Hawk