Bonasa uiubellus . 
Concord, Mass. 
1899. Partridges liave more than one drirniming place. 
April 24. A Partridge was dr'aiffi:iing this afternoon in the Barrett 
run and another in Pr’escott's pines near the road to the Green 
Field, both on stone walls. Gilbert heard a third in the 
Blahemore woods, I thinh that the bird in the Prescott's 
pines was the same that 1 heard yesterday at the north end of 
Davis's swamp (where the driomming stand is a small log) and I 
also believe that the Blahemore bird is the one we hear so 
frequently at the east end of Ball's Hill. In other words I 
thinh that each bird has two drimoming stations. 
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ilest with 12 eggs. 
I found a Partridge's nest v/ith 12 fresh loohing eggs in 
May S. a patch of Huchleberry Bushes under a Red Pine on the north 
edge of the Barrett Run about 50 yards from the drumming v/all 
and 40 yards from the site of the nest vj-ith 13 eggs which I 
photographed last year. vYe were thinning out birches and 
Mr. Libby cut dovm a large one that stood within 15 feet of 
the nest. As it fell the Partridge rose flyiiig slowly almost 
lihe a Rail. The tree fell within a yard of the nest. We 
had been talking and cutting other trees close about the spot. 
May Ist I flushed a pair of Partridges within 60 yards of 
this nest. They rose together within four feet of one anoth- 
er. I started a male this morning about 100 yards from the 
