. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . so somewhat smaller than the Rock Ptarmigan. Theynest abundantantly near the summits of the ranges in Colorado, making theirnests among the rocks, and generally lining them with a few grasses. DuringJune, they lay from six to twelve eggs having a creamy background, speckledand blotched with chestnut brown. Size x 304a. Kenai White-tailed Ptarmigan. Lagopus leucurus peninsularis. Range.—Kenai Peninsular, Alaska. A similar but paler
. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . so somewhat smaller than the Rock Ptarmigan. Theynest abundantantly near the summits of the ranges in Colorado, making theirnests among the rocks, and generally lining them with a few grasses. DuringJune, they lay from six to twelve eggs having a creamy background, speckledand blotched with chestnut brown. Size x 304a. Kenai White-tailed Ptarmigan. Lagopus leucurus peninsularis. Range.—Kenai Peninsular, Alaska. A similar but paler (in summer) varietyof the preceding. The nesting habits or eggs will not differ. 305. Prairie Chicken. Tympanuchus americanus americanus. Range.—The prairies, chiefly west of the Mississippi; north to Manitoba, eastto Ohio, and west to Colorado. This familiar game bird of the west is about 18 inches in lengtb. brownishabove and grayish below, with bars of brownish black both above and i he place of the ruffs of the Ruffled Grouse, are Long tufts of rounded orsquare ended feathers, and beneath these a peculiar sac. brighl orange in the.
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