T inclose a scalp of a Partridge to slio'.v you a crett, the 
central feathers of v/liich measured carefully ’.'/ith dividers were 
2 ^ inches lonp, nearly tv/ice as long as I ever sav/ in killing 
some SOOO. ’'There is no nev/ thing under the sun, " says Solomon; 
but If he still hunted Partridges he v/ould take that back. u’p to 
three v/eeks ago the birds acted about as usual; but nov/ they have 
changed tbeir tactics entirely. One may creep through their old 
Flaunts or walk the v/oods at random, yet he v/ill seldom hear the 
'7hirr of the Partridge's v/ings, much less see one. 1 have not 
seen one on the ground for weeks. Of the last ten 1 shot, not one 
but v;as in the tops of trees or on the v/ing. Nov;, except at night 
they stay in choppings (?) tv/o or three years old or in stumpy 
and bushy sheep pastures, sitting a gun-shot or more from the '"oodt; 
They often fly v/hen one lias come softly out of the woods though 
tv/enty rods off and go sailing off to foi'ty or: fifty rods to usu- 
ally alight in trees. One stands tv;ice the chance to get near 
them by walking carelessly as by creeping. They care nothing for 
the sound of a gun; in fact they stay longer for it. It takes all 
the fun out of the shooting for mo, as 1 would noi, give a cent, to 
