. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . Rocky Mountains, from Idaho and Montana south to Arizona and New Mexico, and from the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, east to the Black Hills, Dakota. Nest. â A slight depression alongside a log or under grass or bushes, lightly lined with pine needles and grass. Fggs : 7 to 10, cream or cream buff, spotted over entire surface with brown. Food. â Grasshoppers, worms, grubs, and wild berries such as bearber- ries, raspberries, gooseberries, and currants, plant
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . Rocky Mountains, from Idaho and Montana south to Arizona and New Mexico, and from the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, east to the Black Hills, Dakota. Nest. â A slight depression alongside a log or under grass or bushes, lightly lined with pine needles and grass. Fggs : 7 to 10, cream or cream buff, spotted over entire surface with brown. Food. â Grasshoppers, worms, grubs, and wild berries such as bearber- ries, raspberries, gooseberries, and currants, plant leaves and flowers, buds, and fir needles. Among the ranches the dusky grouse is commonly known as the fool-hen, on account of its natural tameness and its unsuspiciousnature. Back in the mountain ranges where hunters are scarce andusually in quest of bigger game, the grouse are almost as fearlessas barnyard poultry, walking out of your path with stately delib-eration, or stopping to watch you near the trail. But after a littleexperience with hunters and dogs they become as wild as deer andalmost as difficult to GROUSE, PARTRIDGES, QUAILS, ETC. 125 With the Indian as well as the white hunter they are favoritegame birds, both because of their large size and the delicate flavor oftheir meat. Vernon Bailey. 297a. D. o. fuliginosus Ridgw. Sooty Grouse. Adult male. â Similar to Z). obscurus, but darker, sooty blackish withnarrower tail band â usually about .00 on middle feathers and not morethan .40 on outer pair â and without white on sides of neck. Adultfemale: similar to female obscurus, but upper parts darker, sometimeswashed with dark rusty. Young : darker and more rusty. Length : , wing- , tail Distribution. â Northwest coast mountains, from Alaska south to Cali-fornia and Nevada. Nest. âSimilar to that of the dusky grouse. Eggs : 8 to 15. The sooty grouse, like the wild turkey, is a bird of distinction andpeculiar interest whe
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