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Index 



Tetraonina — grouse family, 107. 

 Texan Bob-white [C. v. texanus"] 



I, 4, 87. 

 Texas — Bartram's sandpiper range, 



324- 

 Thickets — quail-shooting, 52. 

 Townsend's ptarmigan [Z. r. town- 



sendi] 108, 247. 

 Tracking turkeys, 277-293. 

 Trapping chickens, 177. 

 Trapping turkeys, 253-255. 

 Treeing habits of upland game — 

 Dusky grouse, 148, 150, 152. 

 Ruffed grouse, 118-123. 

 Turkey — 



Elliot's Rio Grande turkey, 



299. 

 Emblem for U.S., proposal, 250- 



251. 

 Florida wild turkey, 298-299. 

 Mexican turkey, see that title. 

 Strutting gobbler, inflated feeling 



of, 112. 

 Wild turkey, see that title. 

 Turner's ptarmigan [Z. r. atkensis~\ 



108, 247. 

 Tympanuchus americanus — prairie- 

 hen, 107, 156. 

 f See Prairie-hen.] 

 Tympanuchus americanus attwateri 

 — Attwater's prairie-hen, 

 107, 193. 

 Tympanuchus cupido — heath-hen, 



107, 192. 

 Tympanuchus pallidicinctus — lesser 

 prairie-hen, 107, 193. 



Upland game, see names of game. 

 Upland plover, see Bartram's sand- 

 piper. 



Valley-partridge [Z. <.. vallicola~\ 5, 



91, 100. 

 Valley-quail of California — 

 Abundance of, 377. 



Valley-quail of California \contin- 

 ued~\ — 



Call, 379-380. 



Compared with Bob-white, 378, 

 382. 



Compared with Gambel's par- 

 tridge, 379, 380. 



Description, 378. 



Fearlessness and vivacity, 378— 



379- 

 Shooting, 380-386. 



Banding of quail, 381. 

 Dog, necessity of, 382, 385. 

 Expert, sport for, 380, 383- 



385- 

 Flight of quail, 383. 

 Ventura, dusky grouse, 411. 



Welch's ptarmigan [Z. r. welchi] 



107, 242. 

 White-tailed buck, shooting, 257. 

 White-tailed ptarmigan [Z. leucu- 

 rus'] 242-247. 

 Mating, 245. 

 Plumage, 245-246. 

 Shooting — high altitudes, 243- 

 245. 

 " White wolf of the north " — ptar- 

 migan shooting, 238. 

 Whooping crane [ Grus americana"] 



shooting, 353-359- 

 Wild turkey [Meleagris sylvestris'] 

 248-298. 

 Coursing, 269-273. 

 Demand for wild birds, 252-253. 

 Eggs, hatching under domestic 



bird, 259-260. 

 Florida wild turkey, 298-299. 

 Mating, 258-259. 

 Migration, 261-263. 

 Owl attack on, 266-268. 

 Range limit — scarcity of birds, 



248-252. 

 Shooting, 256-258, 269-298. 

 Calling, 269, 273-277. 



