1900 
June 27 
Quail 8 s 
neW 
17 eggs 
Partridge 
with 
Notes 
of 
Y^lL Off- 
bill 
Cuckoo 
. . . A Quail was whistling in the distance and Pat told me 
that Arnold found its nest with 17 eggs, in his orchard, last 
week. Pat also says that he came on a brood of young Par¬ 
tridges on the West Bedford shore a few days ago. I started 
an old cock bird there this afternoon. 
♦ *♦♦**♦#*♦ 
As I was passing through a wood road behind Ball’s 
Hill, I heard a Partridge making the puppy-like whining 
cries which the old hen bird utters when anxious about her 
young. A little further on I heard the young calling on all 
sides of me in the dense alder thickets and presently one 
about as large as a Pigeon walked slowly and daintily across 
the path. I cannot imagine what could have disturbed and 
scattered them as none of my men had been that way. 
In a note-book which I used here last year I find 
a leaf which @vidently has never been copied and on which 
occurs the following inscription in pencil, doubtless made 
in the field? 
"Young partridges scattered calling feebly zee-zee- e. 
Old bird replies with a low cror-cror-cror . 11 
On the same leaf is the following transcript of the 
song of Coccygus americanus ? 11 Toc-toc-toc-toc-toc-toc-tOc-toc 
(all these notes hard, woodeny and on the same key) kau, kau, 
kau . The notes of another individual sounded more like tei- 
tet-tet-tet-tet-tet , tau . tau, tau i! 
