93

Concord, Mass.
1916.
Aug. 30
to
Nov. 4

Ruffed Grouse

both feet and legs with the thigh bones and all flesh
belonging to them intact; one entire wing, severed close to 
the body; and the anterior half of the skull. Some of
these remains lay beneath the pine, others in the opening.
I found them on September 24 [September 24, 1916] when their condition
indicated that the Partridge must have been killed only
a few hours previously. It is unusual for a Fox
to leave so much of any victim, feathered or furred,
but its entrails are never eaten.

Flock of eighteen Partridges

  Shortly after breakfast on the morning of September 10 [September 10, 1916]
H.W. Henshaw [Henry Wetherbee Henshaw] and I were following an old wood road
that leads past Pulpit Rock when "Tim", the little Irish Terrier
who accompanied us, flushed no less than eighteen partridges,
mostly young about two-thirds grown, from a brushy hollow
only a few yards square & within close shot gun range of
where we stood. At least a dozen of them rose all at once &