Bonasa iimbellus . 
Concord, 
1898 , 
Nov, 9. 
i!ass. Eating Mushrooms, 
Went to the Barrett farra in the afternoon, A Partridge 
v/as drvuimiing there at short, regular intervals on the stone 
wall in the run. Either this bird or another “dusts" almost 
habit 
daily in an ant-hill near the wall. It is a oommon^of the 
Partridge to resort to ant-hills for this purpose probably 
because they afford almost the only clean, dry dirt that can 
be found in the leaf-carpeted woods. Gilbert saw a Partridge 
eating a mushroom yesterday and broiight in the fragment. It 
plainly showed the marks of the bird's bill but unfortunately 
it was so mutilated that Miss Hosmer to whom Miss Keyes took 
it for identification was only able to say that it viras one of 
the edible kinds f 
"^Another and better specimen, afterwards 
obtained by Gilbert in the same place and considered both by 
him and by Miss Hosmer to be unquestionably the same species, 
was identified by Miss Hosmer "at a meeting in Boston" as 
Collybea maculata . an edible and "most delicious" kind of 
mushroom. 
