240 AMERICAN GAME BIRD SHOOTING 
“T have no reason to believe that it occurs at all in 
northwestern Minnesota or North Dakota.” 
In Manitoba they seem more or less to associate with 
the sharp-tailed grouse, so much so that sometimes birds 
of both species will be started from before the dog. 
When winter comes, however, and the sharp-tailed 
grouse go into the woods, the pinnated grouse stay out 
on the prairie. 
LESSER PRAIRIE HEN. 
The range of the lesser prairie hen has already been 
given. 
While riding over the prairie through the western 
part of the Indian Territory in the month of March, 
I have more than once driven for hours through flocks 
of these birds, contentedly feeding on the prairie and 
wholly disregarding the wagon, which passed close 
to them. On these occasions we must have seen many 
thousands of the birds, and it is probable that imme- 
diately after this the packs broke up and the mating 
season began. 
The pursuit of this form differs in no respect from 
that of its slightly larger relative to the North and 
East. 
The most southern range in Texas of Attwater’s 
prairie hens is given as just north of Fort Brown, near 
the coast, and it is very abundant south of San Antonio. 
