PERMANENT GROUP — GAME BIRDS 95 



GAME BIRDS. 



Nos. 259-263. 



259. RUFFED GROUSE: PARTRIDGE. 



Reddish-brown, spotted Tawny, brown-barred. 



18. Erectile crown-featliers, black-marked ; prominent 

 dark ruflf-feathers on each side of neck ; tail, large and 

 rounded, gray, with broad black band near tip, and else- 

 where finely vermiculated with black. 



Throughout ; nest, on ground in swampy woods ; eggs, late in May, 

 8-15, buff, plain or spotted ; remarkable for " drumming." 



260. PINNATED GROUSE: PRAIRIE HEN. 



Barred with black, white, and tawny. 



16-18. Crested; a tuft of long feathers on each side of 

 neck, which can be spread into the form of a little wing, 

 below which the bare skin is sometimes greatly inflated ; 

 tail, very short ; legs, feathered. 



Very rare in Eastern States, but said to be still found in Martha's 

 Vineyard, Long Island, and locally in N. Y., N. J., and Pa. ; nest, 

 on ground ; eggs, pale greenish-gray, speckled or unmarked. 



261. CANADA GROUSE: SPRUCE PARTRIDGE. 



Black, gray-waved Black, white-barred, and spotted. 



16. Narrow stripe over eye, yellow or red ; broad, rounded 

 tail, black, with broad tip of orange-brown ; legs, feathered 

 to toes; ?,with much variegation of white, brown, and 

 tawny ; tail, obscurely orange-tipped. 



Only on northern edge ; locally common in Ad'r'ks ; nest, on ground, 

 in damp places ; eggs, late in May, 12 or more, variegated. 



