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leaf plumage of April that she would permit a person to 

 approach within a foot or two of her nest. A light snow- 

 fall occurring a few days later made the same bird con- 



FIG. 358. The ptarmigan in summer. Photograph of mounted specimen. One 

 third life size. 



spicuous, and she would fly from her nest before the ob- 

 server was nearer than fifty feet. The whip-poor-will as it 

 sits among the dead leaves in the depth of the forest appears 

 not unlike a mass of leaves some of which are browner 

 than others. The hunter, standing within ten feet of a 



