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THE RUFFED GROUSE. 



North America. This bird is found almost wholly iu open dry plains on 

 which are few trees or tufts of brushwood, pines and scrub-oaks being 

 the most favored shelter. Like the greater part of the group, the males 



"play" at the breeding 

 season, ruffling their feath- 

 ers, erecting their neck- 

 tufts, swelling out their 

 wattles, and uttering their 

 strange love-cries. At 

 this time the Pinnated 

 Grouse is particularly re- 

 markable for the large size 

 and bright orange color of 

 the naked sacculated ap- 

 pendages which hang at 

 each side of the neck, 

 and which can be filled 

 with air until they are 

 nearly of the same size 

 and color as a Seville 

 orange, or can be per- 

 mitted to hang loosely 



i> r^ , ni ^* .7x aloner the neck. 



Pinnated Grouse Tetrao Cunido). mi i r- ^^ x>- 



^ ^ The color of the Pin- 



nated Grouse is mottled with black, white, and chestnut-brown, the 

 male having two wing-like appendages on the neck, composed of eigh- 

 teen feathers, five long and 

 black, and thirteen shorter, 

 streaked with black and 

 brown. The length of 

 this bird is about nineteen 

 inches. 



The Ruffed Grouse 

 is spread over the greater 

 portion of the United 

 States, where it is known 

 either as Partridge or 

 Pheasant according to the 

 locality. 



The liuFFED GiiousE, or Pheasant In general color the 



{Tetrcw umbellusK j^^j^ i^ ^-^^ chestnut- 



brown, variegated with abundant mottling of dark brown and gray. 



The curious tufts on tlie shoulder are rich velvety black glossed with 



green, and just below them the skin is bare. The tail is gray, barred 



