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No. 14. JVfUow Grouse. White Ptarmigan. — Inhabits Arc- 

 tie America from Xewtbuudland to Sitka. 



No. 15. Fork Ptarmigan. — Inhabits Artie America. 



No. 16. White Tail Ptarmigan. — Inhabits Alpine Sum- 

 mits of the Western Mountains from latitude 39° in the 

 Rocky Mountains. North into British America, and West 

 to the cascades of Oregon, Washington and British Co- 

 lumbia. 



Of these stylish game birds, as tar as heard from, we 

 have then in all sixteen varieties inhabiting North Amer- 

 ica, only four of which varieties are found to the Eastward 

 of the'Mississippi River. These are the first, eighth, ninth 

 and eleventh varieties. The first variety, Canada Grrouse, 

 is a swamp and forest ranging l>ird of Northern United 

 States. The eighth variety, Columbia Sharp-Tail Grouse, 

 is said to only occur East of the Mississippi River, in 

 Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin. Of the ninth 

 variety. Finiuited Grouse, as well as the first variety, 

 Canada Grouse, and the eighth variety, Columbia Sharp- 

 Tail Grouse, I shall give under their proper heads, their 

 ornithological chai'acters and habits. The second, third, 

 toarth. fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, twelfth, thirteenth, 

 fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth varieties no where ex- 

 ist to the eastward of the Mississippi River. These I shall 

 only notice by giving their habits, which I shall produce 

 from the best authors in North American ornithology. 

 The eleventh variety, Rufted Grouse ; Partridge ; Phea- 

 sant, we shall introduce to the sportsman as the object of 

 our pursuit, and the special subject of this treatise, it being 

 found in the whole of the Eastern Province of North Amer- 

 ica, and is a well known game bird of this country. In the 

 arrangement of this work I shall begin with the ornitho- 

 logical description of the characters and habits of the first, 

 eighth, and ninth varieties, and follow on with the habits 

 of the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, 

 twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth va- 

 rieties. I shall then close the volume, and this tlepartment 



