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Gobbler. He is then in full dress; and his conse- 
quential attitudes and pompous manners give him 
quite an animated appearance. Companies of ten or 
twenty frequently assemble at daybreak, and perform 
these exciting manceuvres, which mostly result in 
fiercely contested battles, in which they attack each 
other in the manner of the common game-fowl. 
Prairie Hen, or Pinnated Grouse. 
The peculiar rolling or tooting sound which it 
eenerally makes before sunrise, although in the un- 
settled districts it is often heard from morning till 
night, is produced by inflating to their full extent 
the bladder-like appendages above the wings, and 
then throwing the head forward, forcing it through 
the throat in distinct rolling or undulating notes. 
