. Bird-lore . ls near Oneonta and became friendlywith a company of wood-choppers in midwinter. Even when summer (1918)came, Biddy could be easily coaxed from her cover by the sound of choppingwood or the beating of a club on a log. She would box and play but would notvoluntarily permit herself to be picked up. A noteworthy incident in Biddyscareer was her disappearance at the opening of the hunting season in 1018 andher reappearance nearly a year later at West Burlington, Otsego County,approximately twenty miles northwest of her home of the year before. Onewould not expect a representative of
. Bird-lore . ls near Oneonta and became friendlywith a company of wood-choppers in midwinter. Even when summer (1918)came, Biddy could be easily coaxed from her cover by the sound of choppingwood or the beating of a club on a log. She would box and play but would notvoluntarily permit herself to be picked up. A noteworthy incident in Biddyscareer was her disappearance at the opening of the hunting season in 1018 andher reappearance nearly a year later at West Burlington, Otsego County,approximately twenty miles northwest of her home of the year before. Onewould not expect a representative of a supposedly sedentary species to travel A Partridge Don Quixote 333 so far. An account of Biddy appeared in Bird-Lore for 1918 (p. 492). Nothinghas been seen of her since the autumn of 1919. Still a third crazy Partridge was discovered by the writer during earlyOctober of the present year near the village of Lewis in Essex County. Myfather and I were driving in a Ford roadster and had halted the car on a back. A GROUSE IN THE HAND country road in order to admire the autumn foliage. The motor had been leftrunning. We had sat for only a minute or two when I heard a rustling amongthe dead leaves at the edge of the woods beside the road. I supposed it a chip-munk, but turned my head slowly and was astonished to see a Partridge run-ning straight toward us. When at a distance of about fifteen feet the bird(which seemed to be a female or young male) took his stand on top of a logand stood in a rigid attitude eyeing us closely. Only a thin screen of maple 334 Bird-Lore saplings separated us. After both the bird and we had remained motionlessfor what seemed a long time, I raised myself cautiously over the side of thecar and approached the bird. The latter did not fly and gave no sign of beingstartled. He merely stepped from his log, lowered his head, and began walkingamong the underbrush with the same sinuous movement which was character-istic of both Biddy and Billy. He kept six or ei
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