PRAIRIE CHICKENS PINNATED GROUSE. 



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can sit in quiet contentment, full of confidence in the 

 security of her home; for her eyes behold the face of the 

 land for miles and miles, and instinct as well as experi- 

 ence teach her that the unbroken prairie, not yet opened 



PINNATED GROUSE Tympanuchus Americanus. 



by the husbandman's plow, is the most likely spot in 

 which to incubate and rear her little brood free from 

 intrusion and danger. She therefore chooses a place on the 

 prairie and builds her nest, selecting for its construction 



