16 FEATHERED GAME 
there are not enough of them to make a respect- 
able pack) but seem to have adopted much the 
same mode of life as the ruffed grouse—a pro- 
ceeding which will tend to increase their chances 
of long life, for so long as their jackets will 
command a fair price at the collector’s shop 
someone will try to compass their destruction. 
THE RUFFED GROUSE. PARTRIDGE. 
BIRCH PARTRIDGE 
(Bonasa umbellus.) 
This noble fellow is a dweller in most of our 
New England woodlands, thriving and flour- 
ishing under conditions which would be fatal to 
almost any other species. He is a hardy bird 
with a range of great extent, for from Alaska’s 
snow and ice to the sunny mountain slopes of 
the Carolinas and Georgia this gallant grouse 
is found, bearing equally well the breath of the 
northern winter and the heat of the southern 
sun. There is scarcely a portion of our coun- 
try where, under fitting conditions, our hero (in 
the south a pheasant, in the north a partridge, 
and in point of fact neither the one nor the 
other) is not found, and where found, resident. 
