11 
1875* 
Bonasa umbella. 
Middlesex County, Mass. 
(June 2ljl. A female with a brood of about a dozen young feeding 
in the road, in Lincoln. The young—pretty little 
fellows—ran about precisely inn the manner of nev/ly- 
hatehed chickens. Sometimes one would pick up a seed 
or other choice morsal and start off, hotly pursued by 
two or three envious, but less fortunate companions. 
The old hen walked slowly along, keeping her body erect 
and once hopped on a fallen log where she called out ’ 
'to collect her scattered brood v/hich 
eame running in from all directions in obedience to the 
summons. When I approached they all took wing (although 
they could not have been more than a week old)•alighting 
in low bushes and along the tops of stone AYall* I con- 
' cealed myelf and after a few moments they began to lisn 
in a high anxious key scree , scree , screL . 
Sept. 7. As usual in September next to none are to bo found. 
Melvin started only one in a long tramp at Concord last 
week. 
Heard one drum eight or ten times in succession ( 
(Belmont). ' 
Started seven in Belmont. 
One started in Belmont, Upon being fired at it 
mounted into the air at the height of several hundred 
foot and literally flew out of sight across the open 
country. 
i: ® and 
? bushes not exceeding six feet square, in the 
oitin °P™ fiew; they lay clise as „ 
eot ouJoJ ® °P them and flew after we had 
got out of gun-shot. 
Started one in the Maple Swamp, and tv/o in the Pine 
TolTiililn? ■’r" ««t°of%Je thre°: 
\ ^ ^ake the 
anH^tb ^ although the air was perfectly still 
rather more than the psual eoleri- 
flushed twice in the tangled thickets bordering Pout 
dpward aTi^hLr^"® T -“'‘-I® PMg 
unusual the body being nearly horizonJarLrthrntcJ 
not particularly stretched out. 
Started thirty-fivo in Concord, and killed four 
ey are exceedingly tenacious of life at this s^ncin* 
One at which eight shots were firof struc^Jorc^^ • 
»Ln rr°*'’ PK'ttbhing nearly to the ground 
one hunSr°c:”a?ds'::f;enr':?roJ:r“L’''’'®d‘ 
went oil over the woods apparently 
