Bonasa n. togata, 
L. Umbagog . _ 
1890. 
Sept. Oct.- During this autumn Huffed Grouse have been very scarce 
except in two limiter areas. They have been unusually shy, in fact 
> nearly or quite as much so as they are in Massachusetts. These 
facts are partly explained by the further fact that they are nearly 
all ol them u Ld birds . Of fifteen dead birds which I examined 
personally only one ’fas of this years hatching and about this pro¬ 
portion was maintained among t ose killed by Mr. Sherman (about 40) 
and Mr. Dwinell (42). The Partridge hunters of the .region were 
bitteily disappointed for an unusually large number of breeding 
birds were left over from last year and broods of young were 
seen frequently during the summer. Poxes and Hawks were generally 
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charged with their destruction but Mr Sherman tells me that the 
first young bird he shot in early September had a ahlf a dozen or 
more wood ticks, fastened on its head and I believe that these in¬ 
sects were really’at the bottom of the matter. Near Erroll and 
about East B. Hill Partridges were in fully the usual numbers and 
owveral large flocks or broods of young were met with. 
