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i:*2-289-(571). Coiiiuis virginianus (Linn.}. *Bos WHITE; QUAIL; PARTRIDGE. 



Very common; throughout the southern peninsula; all seasons of the year; large 

 flocks; very tame; frequent lawns and barnyards in winter; "never seen at Iron 

 Mountain'' (E. E. Brewster); " not generally found much north of Petoskey, though 

 two were seen on Mackinac Island. September, 1890" (S. E. White); "Keweenaw 

 Point" (Kneeland); breeds; nests in summer, occasionally as late as September, 

 on the ground; eggs white, pointed at one end, numerous; J. B. Purdy has taken 



Quail, male and female, natural size. 



twenty -one eggs from a single nest; "I took thirty-eight eggs from one nest" 

 (Dr. W. C. Brownell); prized as a game bird; very useful in destroying insects, seeds of 

 weeds, etc.; this species has been temporarily protected in our state; " so excellent a 

 friend should be permanently protected " (Prof. Jas. Satterlee); "more common in 

 Monroe county than it was ten years ago" (Jerome Trombley). The name partridge is 

 used eouth and east. 



GENUS DENDRAGAPUS ELLIOT. 



133-298-(555). Deudragapns cana{leu>is (Linn.). CANADA GROUSE; SPRUCE 



PARTRIDGE. 



Common north; I have it from Ionia Co.; taken in winter; "formerly very abund- 

 ant in all the scrub pine thickets in the northern counties, very tame and stupid, and 

 60, easily exterminated" (C. J. Davis); "does not inhabit the shore counties of North- 

 western Michigan, I only find it near Higgins and Houghton Lakes" (Dr.M. L. Leach); 

 " common at Au Sable" (X. A. Eddy in O. and O., Vol. IX, p. 41); " Upper Peninsula" 

 (A. H. Boies); "rare on Keweenew Point" (Kneeland); "occasional at Iron Mountain'' 

 (E. E. Brewster and S. E. White); "not found in Kalamazoo Co., but common north" 

 (Dr. M. Gibbs); Dr. W. C. Brownell took a straggler in Washtenaw Co. in the fall of 

 1887; included in Sager's list of 18M9, and Cabot's of 1850; breeds in the northern part 

 of the state. I have reports of its breeding in the Northern Peninsula; I know that 

 it breeds in Northern Michigan and the Northern Peninsula " (Prof . Ludwig Kumlein); 

 "common in the Gogebic region" (H. Nehrling.) 



