. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . Prairie Chicken Heath Hen breeding season, and capable of being inflated tothe size of a small orange; this is done when thebird makes its familiar booming noise. Theyare very good table birds and although they arestill very abundant in most of their range, somany are being killed for market, that it hasbecome necessary to make more stringent lawsrelating to the killing and sale of PinnatedGrouse, as they are often called. They nest any-where
. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . Prairie Chicken Heath Hen breeding season, and capable of being inflated tothe size of a small orange; this is done when thebird makes its familiar booming noise. Theyare very good table birds and although they arestill very abundant in most of their range, somany are being killed for market, that it hasbecome necessary to make more stringent lawsrelating to the killing and sale of PinnatedGrouse, as they are often called. They nest any-where on the prairie, in hollows on the groundunder overhanging bushes or tufts of grass. Theylay from eight to fifteen eggs having a buffy orolive buff ground color, sparingly and finelysprinkled with brown; size 1* JUfe^jflB m-jtt --^^ 1 .. jy. 305a. Attwater Prairie Chicken. Tympanu-eh us americanus attwateri. Range.—Coast region of Louisiana and Texas. This is a slightly smaller and darker variety ofthe Pinnated Grouse. Its eggs cannot be distin-guished from those of the more northerly dis-tributed bird. 306. Heath Hex. Tympanuchus cup
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