38 RUFFED GKOUSE. 



crest in all its habits, and builds a very similar 

 nest. The young have no crest until the second 

 year after leaving the nest. These birds are 

 rarely seen in the summer during the breeding- 

 time, as their haunts are seldom accessible to 

 man. 



I have already spoken of the Sumass and Chi- 

 lukweyuk prairies. Whilst camping there I 

 had abundant opportunity to watch the habits of 

 many curious residents in these prairies and their 

 adjacent forests of pine : 



THE HUFFED GROUSE OEEGON GROUSE PAR- 

 TRIDGE, PHEASANT. 



Ptonasa Sabinii, Baird ; Tetrao umbellus, Richardson, F.B.A. 



This grouse has an immense geographical 

 range : west of the Rocky Mountains, from the 

 borders of California, throughout Oregon and 

 Washington Territories, extending high up on 

 the slopes of the Rocky Mountains ; plentiful in 

 all the timbered land between the Cascades and 

 Rocky ruts along the banks of the Columbia, 

 over the ridge of the Cascades, down their western 

 slopes to the Fraser, on all the islands of the Gulf 

 of Georgia, and everywhere on Vancouver Island 

 to its extreme north end, and on the mainland 

 north to latitude 53. East of the Rocky Moun- 



