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a most welcome addition to our bill of fare, 

 the meat being white and excellent. A curi- 

 ous peculiarity in their flesh is that the breast 

 meat has in it a layer of much darker color. 

 They are very handsome birds, and furnish 

 dainty food to men wearied of venison ; but, 

 unless their heads are knocked off with a 

 rifle, they do not furnish much sport, as 

 they will not fly off when flushed, but simply 

 rise into a fairly tall tree, and there sit, mo- 

 tionless, except that the head is twisted and 

 bobbed round to observe the acts of the foe. 

 All of the sights and sounds in these pine 

 woods that clothed the Bighorn Mountains 

 reminded me of the similar ones seen and 

 heard in the great, sombre forests of Maine 

 and the Adirondacks. The animals and birds 

 were much the same. As in the East, there 

 were red squirrels, chipmunks, red hares, and 

 woodchucks, all of them differing but slightly 

 from our common kinds; woodpeckers, 

 chickadees, nuthatches, and whiskey jacks 

 came about camp; ravens and eagles flew 

 over the rocky cliffs. There were some new 



