CHAPTER IX. 



PINNATED GROUSE, OR PRAIRIE-HEN. TETRAO CUPIDO. 



• ■ Hurrah for the prairie I No blight on its breeze, 

 No mist from the mountains, no shadow from trees,'" 



DESCRIPTION. 



HIS species of grouse is verj different in 

 many respects from the last-mentioned 

 variety. Its appearance, habits, flesh, 

 are all quite dissimilar, and we regret 

 never having had very full opportunities 

 for studying these interesting birds in 

 their natural haunts, — the rich prairies 

 of the Far West. However, we, as many 

 others, have this pleasure still in anticipation, and in the mean time 

 will endeavor to lay before our sporting friends all the information 

 upon this head which we have culled from reading and conversing 

 with those who have been in the habit of hunting these birds for 



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