fruits, seeds, and twigs of many trees and shrubs, in fact the list 

 of these trees and shrubs given elsewhere in this volume, includes 

 many species that furnish a winter food supply to the Ruffed 

 Grouse. This bird is also fond of the buds of the birch and apple- 

 tree, and consumes quantities of these during the winter months, 

 especially during February and March. During the fall months 

 Grouse are found around wild apple-trees, where they eagerly pick 

 out and devour the seeds of apples that have fallen. So it will be 

 seen how important a part the wild apple-tree plays in the exist- 

 ence of the Grouse. Except in extremely cold weather, the Grouse 

 spends the night high among the branches of the pines or other 

 dense coniferous trees and is safe from the attacks of predaceous 

 quadrupeds, to which other species like the Quail, that spend the 

 night upon the ground are subject. When the mercury drops low 

 and the ground is deeply snow-covered, the Grouse will plunge 

 into it, and spend the night there, warmly covered with the snow 

 blanket. Extermination of its natural enemies and the planting of 

 trees and shrubs that furnish winter food will surely bring back 

 this fine species in goodly numbers. The Grouse moreover is a 

 woodland bird, and wherever the forest is removed by the lum- 

 berman's axe, it disappears from the locality. More tracts of 

 woodland should be conserved especially for this species of our 

 gamebirds. 



The Quail or Bob-white is a bird of the open, cultivated, farming 

 country, persists in spite of the toll exacted from its numbers by 

 the sportsman, and is a valuable ally of the farmer, for it destroys 

 vast quantities of weed seeds and injurious insects. Quail will not 

 survive the winter, in sections of the country where the snow lies 

 deep upon the ground for any great length of time, for the food 

 supply of seeds, grains, and the ever essential gravel, is then 

 inaccessible. Wherever deep snowfalls are liable to occur, thick 

 shelters of brush and boards, with the openings facing the South, 

 should be constructed early in the season, near the feeding places 

 of each bevy of Quail, and liberally stocked with mixed grains and 

 fine gravel. By encouraging the birds to visit this feeding-station 

 long before the first snowfall, you will be assured that they will 

 resort to it regularly throughout the winter. It would be a good 



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