. The gallinaceous game birds of North America [microform] : including the partridges, grouse, ptarmigan, and wild turkeys; with accounts of their dispersion, habits, nesting, etc., and full descriptions of the plumage of both adult and young, together with their popular and scientific names : a book written both for those who love to seek these birds afield with dog and gun, as well as those who may only desire to learn the ways of such attractive creatures in their haunts. Game and game birds; Galliformes; Birds; Gibier; Galliformes; Oiseaux. i68 GAME BIRDS OF NORTH â 'â â â * '^ !
. The gallinaceous game birds of North America [microform] : including the partridges, grouse, ptarmigan, and wild turkeys; with accounts of their dispersion, habits, nesting, etc., and full descriptions of the plumage of both adult and young, together with their popular and scientific names : a book written both for those who love to seek these birds afield with dog and gun, as well as those who may only desire to learn the ways of such attractive creatures in their haunts. Game and game birds; Galliformes; Birds; Gibier; Galliformes; Oiseaux. i68 GAME BIRDS OF NORTH â 'â â â * '^ !:: . great speed, uttering a low cackle as they flew. They are very skillful in concealing themselves, either squat- ting in the snow with only the head exposed to view, or else crouching behind some stone or large bowlder. In summer their peculiar gray plumage assimilates, so well to the hue of the ground and the moss-coverod stones lying about in all directions that it is next to impossible to perceive them, and at this period, especially during the breeding season, they rarely move when approached, per- haps only going a few feet on one side to avoid being stepped upon. In winter their white dress makes them so absolutely indistinguishable from the snow that, unless they move, a person could pass close to them and never notice them at all. The nesting season commences in June, and the eggs are deposited in a slight depression in the ground, lined with grass and a few feathers from the bird's breast, or in a patch of short grass pressed down by the hen into a circular shape. These so-called nests are always at a very high elevation, in some localities rarely below 12,000 feet, and eight to ten is the usual number of the eggs. They have a ground color varying from a creamy to a salmon buff, with spots and blotches of reddish and chocolate brown, but not nearly so completely covered with markings as is the case with the eggs of the other species of Ptarmigan. When incubatin
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