ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.. o< 



i;}2 2S1)-(571). ColiiiHS virg-iiiiamis (Lnni.)- *Bob White; Quail; Partridge. 



Very common; throughout the southern peninsula; all seasons of the year; large 

 flocks; very tame; frequent lawns and barnyards in winter; " never seen at Iron 

 Mountain"' (E. E. Brewster); " not generally found much north of Petoskey, though 

 two were seen on Mackinac Island. September. 1890"" (S. E. White); "Keweenaw 

 Point" (Kneeland); breeds; nests in summer, occasionally as late as September, 

 on the ground; eggs white, pointed at one end, numerous; J. B. Purdy has taken 



Qnail, male and female, natural size. 



twenty -one eggs from a single nest; "I took thirty-eight eggs from one nest" 

 (Dr. W. C Brownell); prized as a game bird; very useful in destroying insects, seeds of 

 weeds, etc.; this species has been temporarily protected in our state; "so excellent a 

 friend should be permanently protected" (Prof. Jas. Satterlee); "more common in 

 Monroe county than it was ten years ago" (Jerome Trombley). The name partridge is 

 used south and east. 



Genus DENDRAGAPUS Elliot. 



133-298-(555). Jleiidragapus oaiia(len>is iLinu.). Canada Grouse; Spruce 

 Partridge. 

 Common north; I have it from Ionia Co.; taken in winter; "formerly very abund- 

 ant in all the scrub pine thickets in the northern counties, very tame and stupid, and 

 so, easily exterminated" (C. J. Davis); "does not inhabit the shore covintieg of North- 

 western Michigan. I only find it near Higgins and Houghton Lakes " (Dr. M. L. Leach); 

 " common at Au Sable" (N. A. Eddy in O. and O., Vol. IX. p. 41); " Upper Peninsula" 

 (A. H. Boies); "rare on Keweenew Point" (Kneeland); "occasional at Iron Mountain" 

 (E. E. Brewster and S. E. White); "not found in Kalamazoo Co., but common noi-th " 

 (Dr. M. Gibbs); Dr. W. C. Brownell took a straggler in Washtenaw Co. in the fall of 

 1887; included in Sager's list of 18.i9, and Cabot's of 1850; breeds in the northern pait 

 of the state. I have reports of its breeding in the Northern Peninsula; " I know that 

 it breeds in Northern Michigan and the Northern Peninsula " (Prof. Ludwig Kumlein); 

 "common in the Gogebic region" (H. Nehrling.) 



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