Bona sa umbel lu s 
Concord, Mass. 
1898. Tortoise diggiiiS a hole for its eggs, I heard young Partridges 
June 84. 
(Ho. 2). uttering their feeble chirping ( tzee-tzee- e-e,) from various 
parts of the bdar oah thicket where I had first seen the old 
bird, and presently she began answering them with a low, hen- 
like cror-cror-cror (always just three notes). As I could 
easily tell by these calls and answers the young quickly re- 
joined their mother when the sounds all ceased. 
There can be little doubt, I think, that this particular 
hen Partridge had learned by experience that the old-estab- 
lished trick of t-umbling about on the ground with beating 
wings and loud whining cries did not always deceive men who 
are accustomed to the woods. In its place she had hit upon a 
simpler, yet really cleverer, ruse by which I was completely 
deceived. 
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A Partridge drumming at short, regular intervals on the 
stone wall at the E.end of the hill at 2 P.M. 
?;hile going through the small piece of pine and oak woods 
on the Y/est Bedford shore opposite the cabin this forenoon I 
heard a Partridge drum a dozen times or more. Gilbert and Mc- 
Grath 'were with me and we were talking and trampling noisily 
through the brush but we went entirely round the bird within 
50 yards or less without silencing him. Finally I went di- 
rectly to the spot whence the sound came and flushed him. 
