154 LEWIS'S AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. 



human voice, the truth of which any one can test whenever an 

 opportunity offers for him to raise them when pointed by his dog. 

 A single word spoken will always be sufficient to do it. 



SNARES, ETC. 



Many pheasants are snared and entrapped by the same means 

 resorted to in taking partridges ; and we may safely say that full 

 one-half of the birds brought to market are obtained in this way, 

 and not by the gun. Pheasants, when feeding, resemble the wood- 

 cock in one particular ; and that is, their intolerable aversion to 

 clamber or fly over any trifling obstruction which may be placed in 

 their course through their feeding-grounds ; and this singularity is 

 taken advantage of by the country-boys, who place a barrier 

 across their haunts, a foot or more high, with small openings at 

 short distances apart, set with horsehair snoods, as before de- 

 scribed, and thus take large numbers in the course of the season. 



MEMORANDA. 



1. The ruffed grouse, or, as we have consented to call it, the 

 pheasant, is found in all the wild and mountainous districts of our 

 country, from the most northern latitudes as far south as Georgia. 



2. They are called partridge in the Eastern, pheasant in the 

 Middle, and grouse in the Southern States. There are no phea- 

 sants, properly speaking, in America. 



3. These birds commence pairing in March and April. The 

 nest usually contains from five to twelve eggs. 



