Bonasa vanoellus 
Concord, 
1893. 
June 10. 
June 21. 
June 24. 
llass. • Hen and young. 
In the. cluster of bushes just behind Ball's Hill we (Miss 
M. and Miss A. Keyes .and I ) stiaabled oxi a hen Partridge v;ith 
a brood of young which were of about the sise of newly-hatched 
chickens. They scattered in every direction some rvmning, 
others flying, all peeping in shrill feeble tones. The moth- 
er meanwhile went through the usual performance. Her piteous 
whining seemed to me to be almost exactly like that of a cold 
and hungry puppy and both of my companions agreed that tliey 
should never have suspected that the sound was made by a bird. 
I was surprised to hear two Partridges drumming at short’ 
regular intervals, one on the stone wall at the east end of 
Ball's Hill, the other at the station at the north end of 
Davis's swamp (this evening). I do not quite understand why 
they should have started druimning again so late ixx the season 
for the Ball's Hill bird, at least, has a brood of several 
yoxing several weeks old. 
As I vxas returning through Prescott's pines this morning 
I came upon a hen Partridge which ran on ahead of me showing 
herself conspicuously but making no vocal sound or other pecu- 
liar demonstration. I followed her some distamce into the 
brush without succeedixxg in flushing her and finally decided 
that she must have injured one of her wings so that she could 
not fly. But a few minutes later, as I was watching a Painted 
