Spruce Partridge. 
Wav o rly r Mass -.- 
Ehe Cabots discovered Newfoundland in 1493. Within a few 
years of that date Sebastian Cabot published a map of the country 
visited, with notes printed in the margin. One of these notes, 
referring to Newfoundland, says that the Partridges found there are 
blach . Q,uery^-isn« t this the first notice of the Spruce Partridge. 
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^ w^r-'-^ Walter Faxon (letter January 12, 1391). 
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