. The gallinaceous game birds of North America, including the partridges, grouse, ptarmigan, and wild turkeys .. . ^ ■ ■;. CANADA GROUSE. lOl winter. Tlie Spruce Grouse is found usually in smallflocks consisting generally of one family, but also oldmales are frequently met with alone, and I have alwaysregarded it as a bird that was rather fond of , even in autumn, when the nights were be-coming frosty, and snow flurries would hide the sun byday, heralding the coming winter, I have seen an oldmale, in the recesses of a swamp, strut about with ruffledfeathers and trailing wing
. The gallinaceous game birds of North America, including the partridges, grouse, ptarmigan, and wild turkeys .. . ^ ■ ■;. CANADA GROUSE. lOl winter. Tlie Spruce Grouse is found usually in smallflocks consisting generally of one family, but also oldmales are frequently met with alone, and I have alwaysregarded it as a bird that was rather fond of , even in autumn, when the nights were be-coming frosty, and snow flurries would hide the sun byday, heralding the coming winter, I have seen an oldmale, in the recesses of a swamp, strut about with ruffledfeathers and trailing wings, as if the air were balmy andmild and spring were at hand to awaken in his breast theall-controlling passion of love, instead of being near thefreezing point. He may have been going over the per-formance to keep himself in practice, or to impress me,possibly, with a proper sense of his own importance, forall his movements were calm and dignified in the ex-treme, and there was not the slightest evidence of fear, orof his being in any way inconmioded by such an unim-portant event as my presence. I have never known th
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