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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



COLOR PLATES 



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Color Phases of Ruffed Grouse Frontispiece 



Visual Differences Between Sexes of Ruffed Grouse ^1 



Challenge or Love Call, the Morning Roll 



Of a Drumming Grouse Awakes One's Soul 3o< 



Breaking Day, Morning Dew. 



Old Rail Fence, Woods' Edge Too. 



Young Grouse Chicks, Watchful Hen, 



Junetime's Come to Partridge Glen "''^^ 



BLACK AND WHITE PLATES 



Snares Confiscated by the New York State Conservation Department 9 



Dr. a a. Allen Dean of American Grouse Breeders, With Some of His Hand- 



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RAISED Birds _ 



Partial Albino Ruffed Grouse Taken Near Fort Kent, Me ^' 



A Grouse With Its Feathers Fluffed Out to Provide Insulation Against the 



Cold 



Winter Grouse Droppings (left) Resulting from Coarse. Highly Fibrous Foods 

 and Spring Droppings (right) Produced After the Birds Begin to Feed on 

 Fresh Green Material ^^ 



Through Fighting and Bluffing a Definite Social Order is Established Among 



Grouse, Both in the Wild and in Captivity (^^ 



The Strutting Male Seems both to Attract and to Intimidate the Female 

 During the "Gentle Phase" both Sexes are Quiet and Subdued in Action 6 



While in the Fighting Phase, the Male Exhibits Considerable Pucnaciousness in 

 Defense of his Territory 



Romeo and Juliet ''' 



A Group of Typical Grouse Eggs '' 



Three Grouse Chicks Six Hours After Hatching "9 



Grouse at the Research Center were Weighed Periodically as One Means of 



Combatting Disease ■ ' 



Grouse are Seldom Abundant Where the Forests are Extensive and Unbroken 112 

 The Adirondack Region Consists of Mountains and Wide Lowlands. Forested 

 Chiefly with Spruce, Balsam, Pine, Birch, and Maple. In the Valleys are 



Scattered Ponds, Swamps and Clearings ' "^' 



The Catskill Region is a Land of Narrow. Farmed Valleys With Pastures Ex- 

 tending UP THE Slopes to Meet Extensive Forests Composed Mainly of 



Beech, Birch, Maple, Hemlock and Pine 



The Rest of State Region is Characterized by Fertile Valleys and Poorly 

 Farmed Uplands. Here the Mosaic of Abandoned Fields. Old Pastures and 

 WooDLOTS Forms Many a Productive Covert 

 Grouse Cover is Constantly Changing as Fields Seed in. Woods Grow up Perhaps 



TO Fall Again Before the Lumberman's Axe IPJ 



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