Sonasa uKoellus 
Concord, l.Iass. 
1894. 
Oot.ll 
to 
]^ov.21 . 
1895. 
Oct . 6 , 
Partridges were scarce through Sept, and Oct., so scarce, 
indeed, that Melvin on Oct .20th hunted all day in Carlisle 
with a good dog without starting a single bird. Early in Nov. 
they began to increase in numbers rapidly and by the end of 
that month they became fully as numerous as they were last 
year. Arthur Robbins hilled nine in one day about Ho v. 25th 
and after this date rarely failed to start from thirty to 
forty in a day's tremp. He, as ’well as all. the other sports- 
men whom I have seen, report that the birds have been unusual- 
ly shy this year. 
In the Ball' Hill region I have noticed no change in the 
ntffiiber of Partridges as the season advanced. They were very 
shy. 
In the afternoon I v;alhed to Bateman's Pond. 
I started 
three Partridges. One flew from the branches of a leafy oah 
directly over the woodpath as I 'was returning half an hour 
after sunset. It was so dark at the time that I could not 
see the path distinctly and I think the bird had gone to 
roost. It called quet-quet-quet-quet-auet in low, hurried 
tones just before taking wing. 
