SAGE GROUSE 281 
Except when in flight, the sage grouse is deliberate 
in its movements, and I have seldom seen a bird on foot 
that appeared to hurry. More often they walk delib- 
erately along, with heads stretched high, watching the 
intruder until the time comes for flight, when they 
spring from the ground with the cackling cry already 
mentioned and soon disappear over the next hill. The 
flight is often very much extended. 
The only occasion when I recall seeing a sage grouse 
run was once when a bird that I had started flew several 
hundred yards and alighted in plain sight on a hillside 
on the other side of a valley. A marsh hawk, which 
was hunting near where the grouse alighted, flew to it 
and several times stooped at it and appeared to reach 
for it with its feet. The grouse at once started and 
ran swiftly along the hillside until it reached some high 
sage brush, the hawk following and now and then 
making a clumsy dive at it. 
