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Index 



Quail [continued'] — 



Importation of migratory variety, 



2-4. 

 Migration, 24-25. 

 Mountain-quail, see that title. 

 Nests, 13. 

 Pacific coast, see Mountain-quail 



and Valley-quail. 

 Roosting, 26. 

 Shooting, 30-67. 



End of the season, 64. 



Methods of good shots, 54. 



Scent, 28-29, 52, 64, 66. 



Suggestions to novices, 35. 



Young quail, 19. 

 Valley-quail of California, see that 



title. 

 Varieties of, 4-5. 

 Young — 



Characteristics, 16-19. 



Rearing, 14-16. 



Shooting, 19. 



Rallying call, see Calls. 



Rasores — partridge family, i. 



Rattlesnake, enemy of Texan Bob- 

 white, 88. 



Red grouse, American rivals, 346. 



Red River Valley, grouse shooting, 

 139-140. 



Red ruffed grouse, see Ruffed grouse, 

 Pacific coast. 



Red squirrel — foe of dove, 370-374. 



Reinhardt's ptarmigan [Z. r. rein- 

 hardti] 107, 241-242. 



Richardson's grouse \_D. o. richard- 

 soni] 107, 153. 



Rifles, see Guns. 



Ringneck pheasant species, 347-348. 



Rio Grande turkey, Elliot's, 299. 



Rock ptarmigan [Z. ru/>estris] 107, 

 241. 



Rocky Mountains — 

 Dusky grouse, 410. 

 First view of, 207-208. 



Roosting — 

 Quail, 26. 



Ruffed grouse — treeing habit, 

 1 18-123. 

 Ruffed grouse — 



Canadian, 107, 144-145. 

 Gray, 107, 146. 



Pacific coast, see Ruffed grouse. 

 Pacific coast. 

 Ruffed grouse [Bonasa unibelliis'] — 

 Cover, 109, no, 128-129. 

 Description, 108. 

 Drumming habit, 110-115. 

 Enemies, 121. 

 Flight downhill — Pennsylvania 



shooting, 141-142. 

 Mating, no, 115, 116. 

 Nest, 1 1 5-1 16. 

 Pacific coast, see Ruffed grouse, 



Pacific coast. 

 Roosting — treeing habit, 118- 



123. 

 Shooting — 



British Columbia, 140. 

 Difficulties of, 109, 130-132. 

 Michigan, 138-139. 

 Ontario, western, 141. 

 Pennsylvania, 141-143. 

 Red River Valley, 139-140. 

 Stalking, 112, 1 20-126. 

 Wing-clapping, 111-114. 

 Wisconsin, 132-138. 

 Young — 



Characteristics and delicacy of, 



1 1 6-1 17. 

 Devotion of hen to, 116- 

 n8. 

 [See also Grouse.] 

 Ruffed grouse. Pacific coast — 

 Description, 403. 

 Range, 404. 

 Shooting, heavy brush, 405-410. 



Sabine's grouse [B. u. sabini] 107, 

 143-144. 



