1 8 Bonasa Umbellus, Rex. 



posites he rushes upward with startling 

 roar to liberty and life when found by the 

 hunter. 



THE ROMANCE OF A GROUSE FAMILY. 



Through a small south-facing valley in 

 western New York there runs a spring 

 trout brook. Several years ago the chop- 

 pers cleared off the arm of woodland that 

 extended from the main forest up along 

 the stream, and then the swale was quite 

 barren except for the crooked alders that 

 had not been worth cutting, and for the 

 fire-weeds that always come to the tempo- 

 rary assistance of newly cleared land. 



Gradually the sheep and cattle began 

 to find pasturage there, and two or three 

 years later clumps of beech and poplar 

 saplings sprang up. Patches of briers then 

 crowded out the sparse grass, and here 

 and there a thrifty green hemlock arose 

 near the stump of its deposed ancestor, 

 so that the barren ground that had be- 



o 



come pasture land was transformed into a 

 brush lot. 



