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score of times and in every case the 

 Pheasant left and the other bird did 

 the incubating. 



Have often found from one to eight 

 (usually three or four) of their eggs in 

 the nests of the Mountain Partridge, 

 Oregon Ruffed Grouse and the Sooty 

 Grouse and even in the nests of domes- 

 tic hens. Have found nests which con- 

 tained eggs of the Ring Pheasant, 

 Sooty Grouse and Mountain Partridge. 

 Each time the Sooty Grouse was incu- 

 bating all the eggs. I have also found 

 nests containing eggs of the Ring Pheas- 

 ant, Mountain Partridge and Oregon 

 Ruffed Grouse, the latter doing the in- 

 cubating. 



A friend of mine informs me that he 

 found a nest which contained 6 eggs of 

 the Ring Pheasant, 6 Sooty Grouse, 4 

 Oregon Ruffed Grouse and 3 Mountain 

 Partridge eggs and the Sooty Grouse 

 was sitting on the eggs. 



As to what would become of the 

 young hatched from such a "mix up" 

 as this I can't say; but I know of one 

 case, two or three years since, of a 

 Sooty Grouse hatching five young 

 Grouse and three young Ring Pheas- 

 ants. She soon took them all to a 

 wheat-field where I often saw them. 

 As soon as they were old enough to fly 

 the Grouse mother would, when dis- 

 turbed, fly up into an old dead fir tree 

 and call and the young would all fol- 

 low her, Grouse and Pheasants alike. 

 Two of the Pheasants were males and 

 it was a rare sight to see them, with 

 their long tails, sitting up on the limbs 

 of an old dead fir tree, with the Grouse. 

 Ellis P. Hadley, 

 Dayton, Oregon. 



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