:!?; LIFE-HISTORIES OF BIRDS 



urc disappeared, he recovers most miraculously from his 

 assumed ailment, Mies to a distance, settles down in the tall 

 irrass, and bv a low cluck, instantly calls bis scattered chil- 



dren together. 



The young are scarcely a week old when they are resigned 

 to the cbarge of the male-parent. In a few instances, this 

 period is exceeded by two or three days. As soon as 

 hatched, they are able to run, and in their escape from danger, 

 facilitate their flight by calling the wings into requisition. 

 I nlike the young of Bonasa umbellus+faey do not squat, 

 but seek concealment in dense bushes or tufts of grass, which 

 they quickly desert for others when pursued. When clustered 

 together feeding, at the cry of either parent, on the approach 

 of danger, their movements bear a very close resemblance 

 to those of the young of (ra/lns domesticus. In fact they 

 might be considered as the exact counterpart. 



The young subsist upon seeds and berries of various kinds, 

 together with the many insects which they encounter in their 

 natural haunts. The principal of the former are the seeds 

 of Triiicum vulgare. Sec-ale cereal c* 1 ford CUM ~culgarc* 

 7,en Mays. Fagopvr 21111 esculent UHI* Set aria Ifa/ica, and 

 the fruits of R it bus ~ci11osus* 7; ? . Canadensis^ /\. strigosus^ 

 R. hispid us* R. occidcutalis. Ribes rubruni* R. JJoridum* 

 \ 'atcinium stamineum^ I . Pennsylvanicum^ / . macrocar- 

 /)o/t. Gaylttssacidfrondosa^ Fragaria -ccsca. F. I 'irgiin'- 

 aiia* and Junipems I irginiana. The chief insects are 

 Fnriu/ca sa/ig-ifi/iea* F. rufa. F. subterrctuca. IJattica 

 chalybea. P/ianeroptera curvicauda* (IZcatithits iircicus, 

 XipJiidi it DI fasciatiim, Phylloptera oblongifolia ^ Ac h eta 

 nigra^ (Edipoda ticbnlosa, (!L. sulphurca, aphides, and 

 the smaller \nctuidic and TineidiC. 



They consort with their parents until the ensuing spring, 

 when they separate after pairing, and prepare to raise fami- 

 lies of their own. which, in the following autumn, congregate 

 with the remnant of the old parental flock, or migrate to 

 distant localities, and found colonies of their own. In about 



