PREFACE 
has allowed me to enrich the book with a wealth of 
illustrations not always to be had in such a volume. 
The colored plates of the ruffed grouse and Virginia 
quail, so admirably depicted by Mr. Louis Agassiz 
Fuertes, I use by the kind permission of the Biological 
Survey of the Department of Agriculture, who also 
let me have the excellent figures of the sage grouse and, 
of Gambel’s quail. Dr. C. F. Hodge, of Clark Uni- 
versity, Worcester, Mass, has furnished me with a 
number of beautiful photographs of his ruffed grouse 
and bobwhites. 
Sportsmen and ornithologists will find here much 
that is familiar, but, I hope, also something that is new. 
Geo. BirD GRINNELL. 
New York, October, r9ro. 
