BONASA UMBELLUS, REX. 



KING by courtesy of all game birds 

 and subject to no authority what- 

 soever is the proud ruffed grouse of our 

 North American forest. 



Named by Linnaeus after the wild ox, 

 bonasus, for his roaring, and specified as 

 umbellus because of the arrangement of 

 neck ornaments, he has received down 

 through cyclefuls of generations a strength 

 and beauty undegenerate. From the pines 

 and hemlocks of the ravine he inhales the 

 spirit and the energy of his moods. The 

 wintergreens and birches furnishing pro- 

 vender, give spicy life to his nerves and 

 muscles. From the crags he adopts the 

 suggestion of ruggedness, and from the 

 winter gale cons music for his symphony 

 by wings. The crash of the falling dead 

 tree involves an idea of death, and by op- 

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