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score of times and ii every case the 

 Pheasant left and the other bird did 

 the incubating. 



Have often found from one to eight 

 (usually three or four) of their eggs in 

 the nests of the Mountain Partridge, 

 Oregon Ruffed Grouse and the Sooty 

 Grouse and even ia the nests of domes- 

 tic hens. Have found nests which con- 

 tained eggs of the Ring Pheasant, 

 Sooty Grouse and Mountain Partridge. 

 Each time the Sooty Grouse was incu- 

 bating all the eggs. I have also found 

 nests containing eggs of the Ring Pheas- 

 ant, Mountain Partridge and Oregon 

 Ruffed Grouse, the latter doing the in- 

 cubating. 



A friend of mine informs me that he 

 found a nest which contained 6 eggs of 

 the Ring Pheasant, 6 Sooty Grouse, 4 

 Oregon Ruffad Grouse and 3 Mountain 

 Partridge eggs and t ie Sooty Grouse 

 was sitting on the eggs. 



As to what would become of the 

 young hatched from such a "mix up" 

 as this I can't say; but I know of one 

 case, two or three years since, o' a 

 Sooty Grouse hatchirg five young 

 Grouse and three youag Ring Pheas- 

 ants. She soon took them all to a 

 wheat-field where I oltea saw tham. 

 As soon as they were o'd enough to fly 

 the Grouse mother would, when dis- 

 turbed, fly up into an old dead fir tree 

 and call and the young would all fol- 

 low her, Grouse and Pheasants alike. 

 Two of tho Pheasants were male^ and 

 it was a rare sight to see them, with 

 their long tails, sitting up on the iimbs 

 of an old dead fir tree, with the Grouse. 

 Ellis P. Hadley, 

 Dayton, Oregon. 



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