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there are not enough of them to make a respect- 

 able pack) but seem to have adopted much the 

 same mode of life as the ruffed grouse — a pro- 

 ceeding which will tend to increase their chances 

 of long life, for so long as their jackets will 

 command a fair price at the collector's shop 

 someone will try to compass their destruction. 



THE RUFFED GROUSE. PARTRIDGE. 

 BIRCH PARTRIDGE 



(Bonasa umbellus.) 



This noble fellow is a dweller in most of our 

 New England woodlands, thriving and flour- 

 ishing under conditions which would be fatal to 

 almost any other species. He is a hardy bird 

 with a range of great extent, for from Alaska 's 

 snow and ice to the sunny mountain slopes of 

 the Carolinas and Georgia this gallant grouse 

 is found, bearing equally well the breath of the 

 northern winter and the heat of the southern 

 sun. There is scarcely a portion of our coun- 

 try where, under fitting conditions, our hero (in 

 the south a pheasant, in the north a partridge, 

 and in point of fact neither the one nor the 

 other) is not found, and where found, resident. 



