Bonasa lx, togata . 
Lake Uinbagog, Maine. 
1394. Before starting this morning I exposed five plates on our 
ISept. 26. old drummer, from a blind which we have made just twenty five 
feet from the spot where the bird sits. He was evidently whol*- 
1y un aware of my presence until just after I had made the 
last exposure wheh he suddenly took alarm and ran off along 
the log, ,, quitting , . , I had a fine view of him through my peep 
hole but noticed nothing new. The fact that his tarsi, for 
their entire length, were pressed down on the log was evident-. 
Also it was clear that his wings did not strike his body-. 
Oct. 3. To my surprise our Partridge began drumming at about half 
past nine this morning. I heard him *|wice and then I went to 
the knoll where I found him in his usual place. He behaved 
rather oddly, stalking about a good deal, sitting down as if 
to drum, then after one or two flaps closing his wings and 
preening his feathers or turning around again. A large yellow 
leaf from a striped maple came whirling down and settled on 
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the log near him. He wlaked to the spot, looked at it, a mo¬ 
ment', picked it up in his bill and then cast it from him to 
, the ground with an impatient jerk of the head. Soon afterward 
' he left while I was absent for a moment. 
