. A System of natural history : containing scientifci [sic] and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . Is also abundant in Great Britain, where are also found the ptarmigan, orwhite grouse. The hazel and pintailed grouse are found in different parts ofEurope. THE RUFFED This well known American Lird is called partridge, in the New Englandstates, and pheasant at the south, although neither the partridge nor pheas- Tctrao umbcllus, Lin. 76 51*= 602 A VES—RUFFED GROUSE. ant is found in America. The ruffed grouse is known in almost every quar-ter o
. A System of natural history : containing scientifci [sic] and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . Is also abundant in Great Britain, where are also found the ptarmigan, orwhite grouse. The hazel and pintailed grouse are found in different parts ofEurope. THE RUFFED This well known American Lird is called partridge, in the New Englandstates, and pheasant at the south, although neither the partridge nor pheas- Tctrao umbcllus, Lin. 76 51*= 602 A VES—RUFFED GROUSE. ant is found in America. The ruffed grouse is known in almost every quar-ter of the United States, and appears to inhabit a very extensive range ofcountry. Its favorite places of resort are high mountains covered with thebalsam, pine, hemlock, and such like evergreens. Unlike the pinnatedgrouse, it always prefers the woods ; is seldom or never found in open plains;but loves the pine sheltered declivities of mountains near streams of the lower parts of Georgia, Carolina, and Florida, they are very seldomobserved; but as we advance inland to the mountains, they again maketheir appearance. The manners of the ruffed grouse are solitary; they are seldom found incoveys of more than four or five together, and more usually in pairs or leave the woods early in the morning,
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