/'//A /7\.\.f//.V> G/IOU8M. 



by man or Iwnsta of prey, has been known to remox.- the eggs to some other locality, where 

 .she think^ t!ii-\ will not be discovered. 



Tti.- ii. -st ia careless* kin 'I .f stm. mie, .,f -ras.s,-sand stout li.-ihige, and is placed on tin- 

 L.-1'.-m.l MII.I.T tin- shelter of graxs or bushes. The f.-mal.- lays :iU.ut six or ten eggs of a 

 \e||owish -r:i\ dixer-itied with s|.<,ts nf liirhl l.r-\Mi Th.- \<>inm are fe<llii-t upon in 

 their lana-, and aftn \vards oil berries, grain, tin- buds ami joung shoots of trees. 



It is a wild and \\aix binl. ni|tiii iim ninrli can- on tin- part <>f t In- -|Mirtsni;in to gpt within 

 fair i:iiii-ln>t. Tin- <-ld malt- wliii-h lia^ MII\ i\-d a x-a-^.n <>r two is particularly sh\ and <rifty, 

 iii^t rust iiii: lili man and il<>^. and i unnin^ a\\.i\ a> f:i-i :i- lii.s legacaii carry him as soon as he 

 is mad-- a\\arv of th- :ippnKichini; danger. 



In tin- aiituinn lh<- \niini: mali-> S4'|init- tln'iiiwlrf>s from lh.- mli.-r H-X, and form a 

 nuiutNT of lilt].- bachelor estiibliHhnicnt.s of tli<>iroun. living l.i-fihi-r in harmony until the 

 ii.-\t l'i-.-.-.lin_ x>a>4i!i. wh'ii Mi. \ :ill l-_r, tO Ul in low*; 'li-- a|.p|.- ol dis,- v i.| is I)IHAMI 

 aiiKtni; them l>\ tin- charms uf thr liitlu-rto n-pudiat<l ex, ami their rivalries l-.ul tin-in into 

 d'-trrminril and continual l-attlrs. \\hich do not OMS.- until tin* <>nd of tin- HeuMon restores them 

 [.. |..M>-. -and s, .1,1 j.-t \ . .in I ),. , >,. . ' ,i no r<M-s s; t vr the iMMtond Midi Of pnj| and their 

 worst enemy, the autumnal Eumjieun 





PINXATKD GROC8B.- 



colorof the adult male binl is black glossed with blm- and purple, except a 

 white band across each wing. The under tail coverts an- white. Tin- remarkable form of the 

 tail is caused by the jieculiar development of tin- ext.-rior feathers, three, four, or even five of 

 which an- laterally curved, tin- outermost IM-MII: tin- longest and having tin- most d.-cided curve. 

 Their ends are somewhat squared. Tin- coloring of the female is quite different. Her general 

 color is brown, with a tinge of orange, barred with black and s^-ckled with tin- same hue, the 

 gjjota and liars lieing larger on the breast, back, and wings, and the feathers on tin- breast more 

 or l.-ssed^-d with while. Tin- under tail -co verts are grayish-xx hit.-. Tin- total lenirth of the 

 adult male is about tw.-nty-txvo inches, and that of the female from s4-x.-nt.i-n to eighteen 

 inches. She also weighs nearly one-third less than her mate, and is popularly termed the 

 Heath Hen. 



ANOTHER fine species of this gronp is the PIXNATED QROI s t of North America. 



This bird is found almost wholly in open dry plains on which are a few trees or tufta 



