. Birds in literature . e that is caricatured by chanticleer. Drummingwith the partridge is a joy. Florence A. Merriam. Birds Through an Opera Glass. Who has seen the partridge drum? It is the next thingto catching a weasel asleep, though by much caution andtact it may be done. He selects not, as you would predict,a dry and resinous log, but a decayed and crumbling one,seeming to give the preference to old oak logs that are partlyblended with the soil. ... He does not hug the log,but stands very erect, expands his ruff, gives two intro-ductory blows, pauses half a second, and then resumes,stri
. Birds in literature . e that is caricatured by chanticleer. Drummingwith the partridge is a joy. Florence A. Merriam. Birds Through an Opera Glass. Who has seen the partridge drum? It is the next thingto catching a weasel asleep, though by much caution andtact it may be done. He selects not, as you would predict,a dry and resinous log, but a decayed and crumbling one,seeming to give the preference to old oak logs that are partlyblended with the soil. ... He does not hug the log,but stands very erect, expands his ruff, gives two intro-ductory blows, pauses half a second, and then resumes,striking faster and faster until the sound becomes a con-tinuous, unbroken whir, the whole lasting less than halfa minute. Burroughs. Wake Robin.^ To find a hen grouse with yoimg is a memorable ex-perience. While the parent is giving us a lesson in mother-love and bird intelligence, her downy chicks are teachingus facts in protective coloration and heredity. How theold one limps and flutters! She can barely drag herself 106. Ruffed Grouse. Partridge along the ground. But while we are watching her, whathas become of the ten or a dozen little yellow balls wealmost stepped upon. Not a feather do we see, until,poking about in the leaves, we find one little chap hidinghere and another squatting there, all perfectly still, andso like the leaves in color as to be nearly invisible. Chapman. Bird Life.^^ Nature has not asked this bird to walk the snows forits living without providing it with proper means of loco-motion. With its slender summer foot it would sink inthe soft drift at every step, while now it walks with perfectease on the lightest snow, for each foot is provided witha snow-shoe. Every autumn the shoe begins to grow,a stiff fringe of horny bristles spreading around the soleand on both sides of each toe, until, by the time the blizzardarrives, the bird is ready to walk on the highest intention of this bristly growth is perfectly plain,for in April, when the snows have
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