. Birds of Michigan. Birds. ZOOLOGICAL o< i;}2 2S1)-(571). ColiiiHS virg-iiiiamis (Lnni.)- *Bob White; Quail; Partridge. Very common; throughout the southern peninsula; all seasons of the year; large flocks; very tame; frequent lawns and barnyards in winter; " never seen at Iron Mountain"' (E. E. Brewster); " not generally found much north of Petoskey, though two were seen on Mackinac Island. September. 1890"" (S. E. White); "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); breeds; nests in summer, occasionally as late as September, on the ground; eggs white, poin
. Birds of Michigan. Birds. ZOOLOGICAL o< i;}2 2S1)-(571). ColiiiHS virg-iiiiamis (Lnni.)- *Bob White; Quail; Partridge. Very common; throughout the southern peninsula; all seasons of the year; large flocks; very tame; frequent lawns and barnyards in winter; " never seen at Iron Mountain"' (E. E. Brewster); " not generally found much north of Petoskey, though two were seen on Mackinac Island. September. 1890"" (S. E. White); "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); breeds; nests in summer, occasionally as late as September, on the ground; eggs white, pointed at one end, numerous; J. B. Purdy has taken. Qnail, male and female, natural size. twenty-one eggs from a single nest; "I took thirty-eight eggs from one nest" (Dr. W. C Brownell); prized as a game bird; very useful in destroying insects, seeds of weeds, etc.; this species has been temporarily protected in our state; "so excellent a friend should be permanently protected" (Prof. Jas. Satterlee); "more common in Monroe county than it was ten years ago" (Jerome Trombley). The name partridge is used south and east. Genus DENDRAGAPUS Elliot. 133-298-(555). Jleiidragapus oaiia(len>is iLinu.). Canada Grouse; Spruce Partridge. Common north; I have it from Ionia Co.; taken in winter; "formerly very abund- ant in all the scrub pine thickets in the northern counties, very tame and stupid, and so, easily exterminated" (C. J. Davis); "does not inhabit the shore covintieg of North- western Michigan. I only find it near Higgins and Houghton Lakes " (Dr. M. L. Leach); " common at Au Sable" (N. A. Eddy in O. and O., Vol. IX. p. 41); " Upper Peninsula" (A. H. Boies); "rare on Keweenew Point" (Kneeland); "occasional at Iron Mountain" (E. E. Brewster and S. E. White); "not found in Kalamazoo Co., but common noi-th " (Dr. M. Gibbs); Dr. W. C. Brownell took a straggler in Washtenaw Co. in the
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