rHE GROUSE. 



^Ruffed Grouse, drumming. 



Cock of the Wood. 



Ruffed Grouse. 



California Quail. 



The Pinnated Grouse is strictly confined to portions of North America. Open dry plains, interspersed 

 with trees, or partially overgrown with shruh-oaks are it favorite haunts. It is found from New Jersey 

 on the east to the Columbia river on the west. The male is remarkable for a naked sacdike appendage 

 on each side of the neck. 



The California Quail is abundantly found in that portion of the United States from which it derives its 

 name. It greatly resembles our common Partridge, or Quail, having, however, a crest on its head, which 

 it can erect or depress at pleasure. 



The American Partridge, which is well known from its peculiar whistle in the spring, the notes of which 

 sound like the words " Bob White," is an inhabitant of almost every part of the North American continent. 

 Where it is not much persecuted by sportsmen, the American Partridge becomes nearly half domesticated, 

 and in winter approaches the barn-yard, mixing with the poultry, and there gleaning its subsistence. 



Pinnated Grouse 



C259) 



American Partridge. 



