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no feathers or other remains anywhere outside of a circle 
two feet or less in diameter and this convinced me that the 
bird had been caught and killed on the spot where its 
bV feathers lay. $-How could the Fox have surprised so wary a. 
creature? I could think of only two possible ways: one, 
that he crept up behind the wall and spring over it upon 
the bird, perhaps, while it was asleep; the other, (and 
this I consider the more probable hypothesis) that he lay 
crouched on the top of the wall watching for something to 
come along and that the Partridge rambled unwittingly within 
reach, perhaps making for its drumming stone,of the presence 
and meaning of which the Fox may have been aware before he 
took up his position there. There was no undergrowth 
about the spot but the ground was covered with a deep mat 
of old leaves. 
fin my record of yesterday I neglected to note 
j eopard p r0 o- that while walking along my river-path at Ball’s Hill in 
the evening twilight I heard a Leopard Frog "snoring” on 
the edge of the water and a Snipe "scaiping" in the mar eh' 
across the river7) 
So 
