. Guide leaflet. ithinstriking distance of a rival who has been giving a similar , with much clashing of wings, a fight ensues which often strewsthe nearby grass with feathers. These tournaments of display and combat are doubtless designed toarouse the attention of the females, but they also occur when onlymales are present. Within an hour or two after sunrise, the timevarying with the ardor of the birds, the competition is over for the dayand the rivals feed peacefully together, until they enter the lists thefollowing morning. Market hunting has greatly decreased the numbers of
. Guide leaflet. ithinstriking distance of a rival who has been giving a similar , with much clashing of wings, a fight ensues which often strewsthe nearby grass with feathers. These tournaments of display and combat are doubtless designed toarouse the attention of the females, but they also occur when onlymales are present. Within an hour or two after sunrise, the timevarying with the ardor of the birds, the competition is over for the dayand the rivals feed peacefully together, until they enter the lists thefollowing morning. Market hunting has greatly decreased the numbers of Prairie Hens,but on the United States Government Forest Reservation, in thesparsely inhabited sandhills of western Nebraska, on the line of theChicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, where the studies for thisgroup were made, they still exist. The eastern Prairie Chicken, or Heath Hen, was once locally com-mon from New Jersey to Massachusetts: until 1929 it was found onMarthas Vineyard but it is now extinct. 57.
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