Ruffed 
r ouse 
Quail 
Geese 
Colaptes 
^till 
missing; 
fresh, in extraordinary abundance throughout my woods. In 
one place a bird had evidently passed the night on the ground 
in the middle of a foot path probably under the snow^ which 
had afterwards melted. The droppings lay in jajcircular heap 
of about the size and shape of an inverted tea-cup. The 
number of droppings which a single Partridge will deposit in 
one night is simply remarkable. 
George Holden,who paid us a visit at about noon, told 
me that he saw a bevy of seven Quail in the road near his 
father's house just before the last great snow storm and 
several days afterwards he noticed their tracks near the 
same spot. He thinks that they probably survived the deep 
snows of February but neither he nor any one else with whom 
I have talked here has actually seen any Quail since the 
snow melted. 
Hr. Buttrick reports seeing two very large flocks of 
Canada Geese passing northward at about 8.30 yesterday (April 
l) morning. These flocks were less than half-a-mile apart 
and were of approximately equal size, each containing fully 
100 birds. Two hundred Geses in sight at once is a rare 
spectacle in these days. 
Still no Flickers! What can have become of them? 
The total absence of their shouting calls is a sad lack 
these spring days. 
