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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 



Qnail, male and female, natural size. 



be permanently protected " (Prof. James Satterlee); " more common in Monroe Co. 

 than it was ten years ago " (Jerome Trombley). The name partridge is used south 

 and east. 



Genus DENDRAGAPUS Elliot. 



135-298-(55o). Deudragapus canadensis (Linn.). 

 Partridge. 



Canada Grouse; Spruce 



Common north; I have it from Ionia Co.; taken in winter; "formerly very abun- 

 dant 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 counties of 

 northwestern Michigan, I only find it near Higgins and Houghton lakes " (Dr. M. 

 L. Leach); common on north branch of Au Sable River " (N. A. Eddy in O. and 

 O., Vol. IX. p. 41); "Upper Peninsula" (A. H. Boies); "rare on Keweenaw Point" 

 (Kneeland); "rare about Palmer except in some localities, where, from its stupidity 

 it is likely to be speedily exterminated'" (O. B. Warren); "occasional at Iron 

 Mountain " (E. E. Brewster and S. E. White); " not found in Kalamazoo Co., but 

 common north " (Dr. M. Gibbs); Dr W. C. Brownell took a straggler in Washte- 

 naw Co. in the fall of 1887; included in Sager's list of 1839, and Cabot's of 1850; 

 breeds in the northern part of the state. I have reports of its breeding in the 

 Northern Peninsula; "I know that it breeds in Northern Michigan and the North- 

 ern Peninsula " (Prof. Ludwig Kumlein); " common in the Gogebic region " (H. 

 Nehrliug). 



