Bonasa utnlaellus 
Concord, Fiass. 
1897. Spelman and I v/ere out nearly the whole forenoon tahing 
Nov. 10. a long tramp, We started three Partridges, ky^x One of 
the Partridges was singularly tame. We heard it chichering 
among soriK3 alders near the edge of Holden's meadow and soon 
afterwards saw it walking slowly along shaking its ruffs ( it 
was a very large and fine cock) and jerking its head and neck 
forv;ard and down at each step in such a way as to malce it ap- 
i pear lame. Apparently it did not like to fly hecause we were 
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! in the opening betvTOen it and the -woods but at length it 
; started out over the meadow and doubled back across the open- 
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* ing 40 yards or so in advance of where we -were standing. 
Soo'n after dinner I flushed two Partridges together on 
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the knoll above this opening. One, a large cock and doubtless 
the same bird seen this forenoon, flew up into a pine and when 
approached took a second flight of only a fe-w yards and a- 
lighted again on a dead branch within plain sight £xnd scarce 
thirty yards from us. 
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I One of the Partridges seen in l»Irs .Barret ' s woods this 
I morning was also very tame rising frora some bushes along a 
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I wall and attempting to alight on the top of a stake after fly- 
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j ing only a few yards but changing its mind it sped on into 
some dense woods. 
