. A Book of ornithology, for youth. Embracing descriptions of the most interesting and remarkable birds in all countries, with particular notices of American birds . out feeling disposed to laugh. Fresh ploughed fields are sure to be visited by thesebirds every morning. In winter they become half domes-ticated, visit the barns and farm houses, and mix with thepoultry. Great numbers are then taken in traps. Theirnests are built on the ground, formed with little art and few materials. The Pinnated Grouse is nineteen inches long, andwhen in good order weighs three pounds and a are smal
. A Book of ornithology, for youth. Embracing descriptions of the most interesting and remarkable birds in all countries, with particular notices of American birds . out feeling disposed to laugh. Fresh ploughed fields are sure to be visited by thesebirds every morning. In winter they become half domes-ticated, visit the barns and farm houses, and mix with thepoultry. Great numbers are then taken in traps. Theirnests are built on the ground, formed with little art and few materials. The Pinnated Grouse is nineteen inches long, andwhen in good order weighs three pounds and a are small wings on each side of the neck, whoseupper parts are mottled transversely with black, brownand white. Over the eye is a semicircular comb of richorange. The lower parts are white, marked with brown. THE SHARP-TAILED bird was first met with by the lamented Gov.*11 114 THE SHARP-TAILED GROUSE. Lewis, on the upper waters of the Missouri. It inhabitsthe great plains of the Columbia, and the uncultivatedlands near the southern parts of Hudsons Bay, but isnever seen in any of the Atlantic States. In the spring,it is sometimes found near Lake It is very shy and solitary in summer, but lives in flocksin winter. Their favourite resorts are the plains Avherethey can feed on the buds of the juniper berries. Theyfrequent the woods as well as the plains ; sometimes feed-ing on berries, sometimes on the tops of evergreen, pop-lar and birch trees. They breed on the ground, near lowbushes ; the nest is composed of grass, and is lined withfeathers. Their flesh is excellent. One of these birdswill sometimes weigh upwards of two pounds. The gen-eral colour of the plumage is a mixture of white and rustyon a glossy blackish ground ; the feathers of the head andneck are tipped with white. THE BLACK GROUSE, OR BLACK COCK, 115
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