Colony of 
'bTer-jdlnp:; 
Partridges 
him to look in ay place and when he e w the egge (there were 
llj not 12, and they looked very dark,and as if about to 
hatch) his face expressed utter astonishment and 
no doubt, triumph, After looklr^ keenly about him for a 
oosient, he said with quiet assurance, ^Mr. Brewster, that 
now 
nest, bet ne/show you mine,** He then led me 
straight past ray nest to a distance of not over 30 or 35 
yards where*by the side of a disused foot-path on the edge 
of the swamp among thick bushes, under a cluii?) of ferns, 
was a nother neat, also with 11 eggs. These looked bright 
and fresh but it la now over two weeks since he found them. 
The bird was not seen at this time (i,e, when he showed 
them to me) nor was my bird seen, But a half hour later 
I found ray bird on the nest (as Ae was yesterday afternoon), 
I did not go to Harry's nest a second time to-day, as the 
light was poor there and I feared I could not see her without 
disturbing her, as the spot is very densely shaded,* 
In oli my life 1 have ever before found nor heard 
of two nssts of the Partridge anythi'ig like so near together. 
Then, too, there was the hen r/ith the brood of young, Al- 
t..ough apparently several days old, the, must have been 
hatched in the Ira mediate neighborhood of Boll's Hill (Harry 
saw a brood on the 26th Hay in Pine Park about 200 y- rds 
from where I met with those to-day), 
♦Harry visited the nest again after I started for the Farm. 
As the bird was not there, he examined th^eggs closely and 
found that eveyf one had hatched, no dcxibt several days ago. 
This accounts for the brood of young on the hill. The dim 
light accounts for our thinking the eggs unhatched. 
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