PREFACE 



has allowed me to enrich the book with a wealth of 

 illustrations not always to be had in such a volume. 

 The colored plates of the ruffed grouse and Virginia 

 quail, so admirably depicted by Mr. Louis Agassis 

 Fuertes, I use by the kind permission of the Biological 

 Survey of the Department of Agriculture, who also 

 let me have the excellent figures of the sage grouse and 

 of Gambel's quail. Dr. C. F. Hodge, of Clark Uni- 

 versity, Worcester, Mass, has furnished me with a 

 number of beautiful photographs of his ruffed grouse 

 and bobwhites. 



Sportsmen and ornithologists will find here much 

 that is familiar, but, I hope, also something that is new. 



GEO. BIRD GRINNELL. 



New York, October, ipio. 



