in the manner just descrihed hut instead sneaked off on 
foot between the rose, into tangled thickets beyond, where 
it would have been futile to follow them with any hope 
of obtaining a fair shot. Although Pheasants retiring thus 
were almost never seen, I could ususlly trace their no 
less rapid than stealthy progress through the corn by 
hearing the pitter-pa.tter of their feet on its fallen husks, 
or fainter and more rustling sounds made by their bodies 
brushing past crisp low-drooping fronds, while every now 
and then some bird more hurried or heedless than the rest 
might strike a slender, semi-prostrate stalk hard enough 
to make it tremble perceptibly. 
During September and October I never once noted 
more than three Pheasants in the course of a single day, 
but four were seen in the Berry Pasture on November 1 and 
six on the 10th. The first one shot, a splendid cock, was 
instantly killed and quickly found lying back upward in a 
matted bed of lov; blueberry. The other, an adult female, 
fell broken-winged and being otherwise unhurt made such 
prompt use of her legs that she v/ould doubtless never have 
been seen again had not "Timmy" trailed her through dense 
brush, for upward of sixty yards, to aground juniper beneath 
v/hich she lay crouching. This seems worthy of record, be¬ 
cause it has so often been asserted that no dog can ever 
