Bonasa uiabe 
Concord, I'lass. Nest and eggs. 
1S98, in the latter i>art of the forenoon Bartlett and I found 
7. a Partridge's nest with thirteen deep huff-colored eggs. It 
'ras in Irs .Bartlett ' s woods, only a few rods hack from the old 
apple orchard, within two or three yards of a dimly raarhed 
foot path, and beautifully concealed under a matted platform 
of brohen-down bushes which, although leafless, voere so dense 
that the eggs could not be seen from above. Two of the eggs 
wore placed on the to'ps 05 ^ the others. The bird left the nest 
v'hen we were about ten yards away and w’ithout flying made off 
with a peculiar crouching gait - a sort of rapid crawling mo- 
tion - crouching very low, trailing her wings, and uttering a 
cont incus gruff whining sound - in short behaving as a hen 
Partridge invariably does v/hen surprised with a brood of young 
but as I have never before seen one behave when leaving a nest 
with eggs. She was in sight for thirty yards or more for the 
cover was not at all dense being sparse, scrubby sprout growth 
with no evergreens. The eggs did not looh to be incubated. 
Purdie and I passed along this 'path on April 50th. 
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