. 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. m CANADIAN RUFFED 'T^HIS bird, a subspec
. 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. m CANADIAN RUFFED 'T^HIS bird, a subspecific form of the Ruffed Grouse, ranges in the northern half of Maine, throuj^h- out Canada as far west as the New Caledonia cHstrict in British Columbia, and is also found in nortlicrn Idaho, Oregon, and Washington on the eastern slopes of the Cascade Range, but does not enter the coast districts. It is very numerous in the thick forests that still cover a large portion of the Dominion of Canada, and is usually quite tame and confiding in dis- position. When a covey or single bird is met with, fly- ing is rarely resorted to, at least at first; the Grouse either walking perhaps a little more rapidly in front or to one side, or else they mount upon the lower branches of a tree close at hand and, motionless, gaze at the in- truder. If a number have perched on the branches of different trees, frequently the majority can be shot before the survivors take alarm and fly deeper into the forest. The usual way of hunting them in these woods is to go with a little dog, which, striking the scent of a Grouse, follows it up until the bird is flushed, and flies usually immediately to a tree, at the foot of which the dog barks frantically, jumping against the trunk, and in many ways exhibiting the excitement under which he labors at seeing the most desired one so near and yet so far. The attention of the Grouse is entirely taken up with the antics and noise of the dog, and pays no heed to the
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