16 
1868 
Middlesex County, Mass. 
Mar 
Saw a flock of six running about a bunch of v/oeds axd 
brush near the side of the road. They have probably 
suffered severely during the winter. 
Ap r, 3 
Flushed a covey of aboyt six in low sv/ampy lyoods. 
One singing “Bob White". 
22 
Started a covey of eight; although we marked them 
closely vre could not afterwards find one. 
They probably v/ere not diminished as much as sup¬ 
posed, by the heavy snow of last winter for the “Bob 
White" of the male can now be heard in all directions. 
Nov. 24. 
A bevy of about a dozen. 
25. 
Found the same bevy again to-day. 
1869 
Noticed to-day for the first time, the wonderful 
ventriloqual powers of this bird. Having started a 
bevy I waited until they had tun together again, and gui 
ded by their whistlings, crept up to within about twenty 
yards. Their loud cries still continued, seeming to 
come from a small clump of bushes directly in front of 
me, when suddenly they sounded more distant, although as 
loud ase ver. In a few moments I judged from the sound 
that they vrere several hundred yards off, and increasing 
the distance rapidly, but hardly had I started to follow 
them, when they all rose vathin a few yards of mo. 
1870. 
Apr. 16 
Still in flocks; started a bevy of seven to-day. 
1871 
A bevy of a dozen started in Belmont (Atkinson). 
May 16 
Hear ;d the "Bob White* of the male for the first 
time. 
1874 
One singing “Bob White • 
