64 GALLINACEOUS BIRDS— GROUSE 



Scotland, and they are very fond of the drives. There 

 is no place in the world where driving could be better 

 done than on the prairies and plains of the Western 

 States. 



We will no doubt shoot at driven grouse before 

 many years, since the ''preserve" idea is moving West- 

 ward like the course of empire. 



The wood-grouse are all great wanderers afoot, and 

 require large forests for their preservation. The cut- 

 ting down of the trees has been sufficient to extermi- 

 nate them in many places. They are benefited by the 

 establishment of the preserves, and get along with less 

 woodland when not too much persecuted. 



All of the grouse are sufficiently important to be 

 considered separately, when we shall have something 

 to say as to the natural history of each, and the 

 methods of pursuing them. 



