PRAIRIE CHICKEN'S — PINNATED GROUSE. 



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can sit in quiet contentment, full of confidence in the 

 security of her home; for her eyes behold the face of the 

 land for miles and miles, and instinct as well as experi- 

 ence teach her that the unbroken prairie, not yet opened 



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PINNATED GROUSE —Tympanuchus Americanus. 



by the husbandman's plow, is the most likely spot in 

 which to incubate and rear her little brood free from 

 intrusion and danger. She therefore chooses a place on the 

 prairie and builds her nest, selecting for its construction 



