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on the ground, beside a log, rock, or tree, in the woods. It is 
most often to be found in or near swampy lands. . The last 
which I examined, which contained eight fresh eggs about the 
twenty-fifth of May, was placed in the “scrub,” beneath an 
interlacing of fallen switches. It was a hollow, about nine 
inches in diameter, and was lined chiefly with bits of dry fern. 
Fig. 20. Ruffed Grouse (4). 
(c).? Had our forefathers been as intolerant of error in 
matters of science as in matters of faith, and had they wished, 
in applying familiar names to common objects, that the Eng- 
lish should obtain by comparison an accurate impression of 
what was found here, our Ruffed Grouse would have been 
2 This biography, and the three following, have been contributed by a friend. 
