Bonasa' umbel Xus , to^ata . 
Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
1394. Our Partridge was back on his old log this morning and 
Sept.21. for about an hour (9 to 10 o'clock) he drummed at short inter¬ 
vals. 7/e all went up to see him and both C. and E.R.S. be¬ 
came at once convinced that the bird's wings did not strike 
his body but merely the air. He behaved precisely as he did 
last year and when drumming sat down on the same spot and 
faced the same way. 
n' 
1896. 
May 21. 
It is a remarkable fact that the Partridge nesting at the 
head of the Sweat Cove (near Wm.Sweat's) laid an egg to-day 
between 12 noon and 5 P.M. 7/hen I photographed 1 !^ the former 
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hour there were as my plate shows and as I made certain by 
several careful counts, but 10 eggs, but at 3 P.M. Watrous 
found 11 in the nest. Moreover when we blew them we found 
that one egg was perfedtly fresh while the other ten were all 
incubated some four or five days. 
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