Bonasa lanbellus . 
Concord, 
1898. 
Oct. 7. 
(No. 2). 
Oct ,18. 
Mass, 
His driiiamina place v/as unlike any I have seen before on per- 
fectly level ground but on the very edge of an old sand bard: 
overgrown vrith bushes. The ground on the edge of the bank 
over a space about a foot square was worn smooth and hard but 
there was no excrement or feathers. Probably this is not a 
station that has been much used. 
As I V7as returning to the river just before sunset (from 
the Barrett farm) I came upon a Partridge in a wild apple tree 
in an opening among some pines. When I first saw him he was 
standing motionless on a dead branch with his neck and body 
in line the neck appearing as long as the body. ^ I stopped 
Instantly hoping that he had. not discovered me. Presently he 
began to walk along the branch spreading his tail and erecting 
and twitching his ruffs at every step. Walking along the 
branches and hoi^ping from one to another he went directly 
through the main body of the tree top (which was dense and 
bushy) and after I had lost sight of him I heard him fly. He 
was a very large and old cock bird. Probably he was budding 
before I disturbed him, I wish I could have seen him at it 
but as it was I saw something new to me for his manner of 
moving among the brahches was unlike anyiifeethlxig I have ever 
before witnessed. 
