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CHAPTER IX. 



PINNATED GROUSE, OR PRAIRIE-HEN. TETRAO CUPIUO. 



" Hurrah for the prairie I No blight on its breeze, 

 No mist from the mountains, no shadow from trees." 



DESCRIPTION. 



HIS species of grouse is very different in 



many respects from the last-mentioned 



variety. Its appearance, habits, flesh, 



are all quite dissimilar, and we regret 



never having had very full opportunities 



for studying these interesting birds in 



their natural haunts, — the rich prairies 



of the Far West. However, we, as many 



others, have this pleasure still in anticipation, and in the mean time 



will endeavor to lay before our sporting friends all the information 



upon this head which we have culled from reading and conversing 



with those who have been in the habit of hunting these birds for 

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