Concord, Llass. 
1899. 
Iviay 13. 
( 2 ). 
Liay 21 . 
Lay 22 . 
Bonasa mabellus . 
In both instances the bird was only a few yards irrom dense 
bushes . 
Still druriEuins. 
The Ball's Hill Partridge V7as again driiimaing all day long 
on his stoxae vxall and I heard the Davis Swacip bird drumiaixig 
steadily late in the afternoon, wliat has started them up 
again? Is it the cool bracing weather or have their nests 
beexi destroyed? 
Nest apparently robbed. 
To the Barrett farra in the afternoon. Visited the Par- 
tridge's nest and found the bird absent and all the eggs gone. 
Ho shells in or near the nest and no feathers or trace of any 
struggle. It loohs as if some person had robbed the nest. 
The male Partridge was drumixiing on the stone wall hard by axid 
I heard the Ball's Hill and Davis Swamp birds drumming also. 
As all tliree have been silent for a long time I cannot under- 
stand tliis sudden revival of the druiimiing uxiless all have 
lost their eggs. 
