CONCORD 
Nest of 
Ruffed Grouse 
Bats in 
Woo^L-shed 
As I was crossing the opening behind Ball's Hill 
this morning, I heard a rustling in the dry leaves on the 
edge of the woods near a large woodpile; the next instant 
I saw a small hen Partridge scuttling off in a peculiar 
manner with her body flattened close to the ground, her 
head and neck carried low, her wings partly open and their 
tips trailing. 
She moved very quickly and evenly but in a devious 
stems 
course, winding in and out among the of the trees. 
After going about ten or fifteen yards, she took wing in 
the usual manner and flew off over the swamp. Feeling 
sure she had started from a nest, I advanced cautiously 
and presently caught sight of the eggs, wholly uncovered, 
in a depression at the foot of a gray birch on the very 
edge of tne cover, about 15 yards from where I had stood 
when I first saw the bird and about 20 yards from the 
mountain laurel in which a Partridge nested last year, 
hatching her brood. There were 12 eggs in the nest found 
to-day; two on top of the others. 
When I last visited the Farm on Apfil 18 there 
were no Bats in the loft over the wood-shed. To-day I 
found 12 there in a cluster in the usual place. Judging 
by the quantity of dung on the floor beneath, they must 
have been there about a week. 
