Bonasa umbellus togata. Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1894. Our Partridge was back on his old log this morning and Sept.21. for about an hour (9 to 10 o'clock) he drummed at short inter- vals. We all went up to see him and both C. and E.R.S. be- came at once convinced that the bird's wings did not strike his body but merely the air. He behaved precisely as he did last year and when drumming sat down on the same spot and faced the same way. 1896. It is a remarkable fact that the Partridge nesting at the May 21. head of the Sweat Cove (near Wm.Sweat's) laid an egg to-day between 12 noon and 3 P.M. When I photographed it at the former hour there were as my plate shows and as I made certain by several careful counts, but 10 eggs, but at 3 P.M. Watrous found 11 in the nest. Moreover when we blew them we found that one egg was perfectly fresh while the other ten were all incubated some four or five days.