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CONCORD. 
1902 
March 9 
Partridges 
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j_JI came to Concord late yesterday afternoon and spent 
last night and most of to-day at the Farm, returning to 
Cambridge late this afternoon. The weather was so bad and 
the walking so difficult that I did not get into the woods. 
A few Chickadees appeared about the house in the forenoon 
and I heard Jays screaming in the distance. The only birds 
seen on the drive to Concord were a Crow and a flock of seven 
Robins.J 
When I was at the Farm a week ago, my foreman, 
Christian Hansen, told me that he had seen five Partridges 
the evening before (that of March l) in a wild apple tree 
that stands within about thirty yards of the barn^just 
beyond the big elm. Gilbert saw four there and a fifth 
in another apple tree near by, last evening, soon after 
six o'clock, but they also saw him and flew off in quick 
succession a few moments later. 
He called me at six o’clock this morning to say that 
they were again in the tree near the barn. I went into the 
east chamber of the farm-house where I had an excellent 
view of them. At first I could make out only four or five 
but before many minutes had passed I counted no less than 
nine, scattered all over the tree, a few low down on large 
branches near the main trunk but the greater number among 
the smaller twigs near the ends of the longer upper branches 
while one or two - were perched on the very topmost twigs of 
the tree, boldly outlined against the gray sky and looking .. 
