Bonasa uinbellus . 
Concord, I^Iass. 
1898. I fear that Partridges will he scarce iii my woods this 
March 17. spring. Thus far I have not seen a single bird. Behsen and 
Pat say that a large Hawh, which has been about all winter and 
which, from their description, must be a Red-tail, has hilled 
all the birds. It is probably the old, old story - aui inno- 
cent and useful "Hen Kawh" hunting the open meadows in pur- 
suit of mice and conspicuous because of his habit of perching 
in isolated trees and a sneaking Goshawk keex>ing among the 
dense pines and picking off the Partridges one after another 
as they carae out into the little s\inny openings. It is cer- 
tain that dither a Hawk or an Owl killed the Partridge whose 
feathers I saw yesterday for I found ckalky white excrement 
under the tree and the feathers had all been nulled out not 
bitten off as would have been the case had a Fox been the 
marauder. One fact, however, leads me to suspect that it was 
the work of Owl viz. that the Partridge was killed either 
on or directly under her roost for the ground linder the dense 
young pines where the feathers lay was thickly strewn with 
Partridge excrement. 
