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^Birds were scattered about all over the place 
and singing freely when I walked to the Ritchie place 
and to the berry pasture about 9 A. M. Many of those 
noted yesterday and day before sesterday were missing t«- 
day and it was evident that few if any new ones had 
arrived during the night. In fact, I do not think that 
there has been any arrival of migrants to amount to any- 
thing since the 6th, although the Wood Thrushes probably 
did not reach here until yesterday evening. At evening 
(about 5 P. M.) a small number of Warblers (perhaps a 
dozen) had collected to feed in the elms and apple-trees 
near our house. Among them I noted the Blackburnian. 
The others were chiefly Yellow-rumps, Black-throated 
Greens, Parulas, and Nashvilles. 
Purdie and I found the Partridges nest in the 
extreme northern end of Pulpit Rock woods. It was in very 
open woods at the base of a large white pine within six 
feet of Lawrence’s wood-road which is traversed occasionally 
by teams and frequently by dogs and men. The bird flushed 
ten yards away,rising strongly directly from the nest 
and flying straight away. The Cock Grouse has been 
drumming for a week or more in oak scrub about 150 yards 
east of the nest. We heard him there to-day just before 
we found the nest. 
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