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cording to Prescott, domesticated among tlie Aztecs — Enormous quantity 

 consumed by the Household of the Tezcucan Monarch — Their Flesh — 

 Trapping Turkeys; Audubon's account — Shooting Turkeys; various plans 

 — Turkey Dog — Run vrith great speed — IIow to be shot — Shooting on the 

 Pvoosts — Dr. Sargent's statements — The Doctor's Artifice — Enemies of the 

 Turkey — Cunning Instincts of the Lynx — Owls and Hawks . . .118 



CHAPTER VIII. 



The Ruffed Grouse or Pheasant ; where found — Barrens of Kentucky and 

 Tennessee — Nomenclature — Why called Ruffed Grouse — Several local ap- 

 pellations — Description — Confounded with the Prairie Hen — Difference in 

 Habits, &c. — Their gradual destruction — Demand for them in our cities 

 — Numbers in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York — Shooting them 

 out of season — Time of Pairing — The Nest — Number of Eggs — Nest often 

 plundered by the Crow, Raven, &c. — Two Broods in a season — The Young 

 Brood — Their Instinct and Habits — Carrying their Young off in their Bill 

 — Habits of the Cock Bird during the rearing of the Young Brood — 

 Drumming of Pheasants ; Audubon's dcscrijition of the operation — Sjiots 

 for Drumming — Their Battles during the Pairing Season — Cocks not con- 

 fined to one Mate — Migrations — Their Flight — Difference of flight when 

 natural and undisturbed, and when frightened — Habits — Places that they 

 frequent — Their Food — Their flesh poisoned by eating Laurel Leaves ; this 

 opinion controverted — Place of Roost — Enemies besides Man — Delicacy of 

 their Flesh — Remarks on cooking them — A dinner of English Game; re- 

 marks on flavor, &c. — Modes of Shooting Plieasants — AYhcre and how shot 

 — Their Habits when being hunted — Several shot off the same trees — To 

 decoy them during the Drumming Season — Treeing Pheasants with Dogs 

 — The kind of Dog in use for this purpose — Setters and Pointers for this 

 Sport — The young Birds early in the season-^The Cocker Spaniel proper 

 Dog to hunt these Birds — The necessity of absolute silence — Snares, &c. 

 — The Markets supplied by the Snares and Nets — Pheasants when feeding 

 — Memoranda ........... 134 



CHAPTER IX. 



Pinnated Grouse, or Prairie Hen — Different from the Ruffed Grouse — The 

 sources from where we get our information concerning this Bird — Descrip- 

 tion — Location — The country they delight in — Rare in the Northern and 

 Middle States — Their former abundance on Long Island — Their presence 

 in New Jersey — Ten Braces killed — The fate of these Birds — Some in 

 Pennsylvania — Barrens of Kentucky and Tennessee — The Prairies of 

 Louisiana, Indiana, and Illinois — Very numerous in Kentucky — Tiie mis- 

 chief they did to the orchards, &c. — Difficulty of driving them off — Siioot- 

 ing them witli rifles — Still a few on Long Island, Elizabeth Islnn<l, 

 Martha's Vineyard, New Jer.-^cy, &c. — Ti)e Phiins of the Missouri, Arkan- 

 sas, and Columbia Rivers — Period of Pairing — The Tooting of the Cock — 



- How pcrformed-^Vcry pugnacious — Their Scratcliing Grounds — Battles — 



