. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. Ml rc ^'IS IS, 'y It Noyth Anicncaii (iroiise. 65 liimaj^M", which cause; its identity to he douhted. It is a larger hird than the ruffed grouse, its fl(;sh heing dark, while that is of a white or pink color. Its plumage is light brown, nearly uniformly harred on the hn^ast, and spotted on the; hack with a dark(T brown. I'ormerly it exist(;d on the plains of I-ong Island, New Jersey, and Maryland, but ceaseless hunting has destroyed it in a
. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. Ml rc ^'IS IS, 'y It Noyth Anicncaii (iroiise. 65 liimaj^M", which cause; its identity to he douhted. It is a larger hird than the ruffed grouse, its fl(;sh heing dark, while that is of a white or pink color. Its plumage is light brown, nearly uniformly harred on the hn^ast, and spotted on the; hack with a dark(T brown. I'ormerly it exist(;d on the plains of I-ong Island, New Jersey, and Maryland, but ceaseless hunting has destroyed it in all States east of Indiana. It makes a n<st of grass in the open prairie, laying ten or twelve eggs of a light color, spotted with irregular brown spots, and hatches in June; ; and generally the young are sev(;n-eighths grown by the fifteenth of August, when the laws of 1 lost of the Western Stales permit the shooting of them. In lllin<jis, Iowa, and Wisconsin it is not unusual for a s|)ortsman to kill sixty in a day, at the opening of the season, hi winter, when tin; snows compel them to come near the woods and the wli<:al stacks for ftjod, they are trapped in gnat numbers, packed in barrels, and sent to the cities of the l!astern Statc;s, and even to London. It is not unusual for shippers to send a hundred barrels of this game in a single ccjnsignuKtnt to New York. It is this wholesale trapping and exportation which is exterminating the species. Wln^n the bird is young, it remains in its original covey, and when disturbed, scatters in the tall prairie-grass, and can then be flushed ov(;r th<; dog, one at a tiuK;, so that the sportsman is thus often able to sttcure the whole cov<;y. Lat'-r, s(!veral coveys unite in a i^ack, and by frosty weatli(!r several small packs unite;, forming a pack of fifty to a hundred birds. Then they keep on the wide range of the open prairie;, and b(;com(; wary and watchful, and cannot b<; approached. The hunter must be; cont(;nt
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