To adld to the raystery, it is several years since I 
have heard a cock Partridge drum anywhere in the Ball*s Hill 
\ 
region (on April 2, 1910, Gilbert heard one on the south 
side of the hill, not far from the cabins, but he heard it 
only a fei¥ times, all the same morning) 1 have repeatedly 
seen an old cook there, however. He must be an odd bird 
if he can nmnage to attach to himself and to keep three 
wives, without ever giving them a serenade. Arid if there be 
more than one cock, it Is doubly strange that I have heard 
no drum ing, especially as I have been living at the hill a 
large psrt of the past spring. Taking it all together, I 
sorely puszled to understand the matter at all. It 
certainly looks as if the two hens which still have eggs 
must belong to a. sixigle cook; however, the cock may be 
with the hen which has young. 
