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HAZE I- GROUSE. 
Herr ^*on Wright, it is found up as high as Kengis, 
(67° 10',) and even as high as Mounioniska. It is 
common in most parts of Wcrmerland.” 
“It frequents old thick forests, as well as young 
plantations of birch and pine mixed, and I think this 
is much owing to the season of the year. With us 
it is generally found in old fir forests with stony rises, 
and often at the foot of rocks in the aln and birch 
Avoods. In summer they appear to frequent leafy 
plantations, and Avith the fall of the leaf they Avith- 
draw into the fir forests, AAdiere they remain through 
the Avinter, only making occasional migrations into the 
nearest birch Avoods to feed on the catkins of the 
birch, AA'hich at this season forms their principal, and, 
I think, their only nourishment, for I ncA^er by any 
chance find any fir shoots in their crops, as I do in 
those of the Capercaillie. They appear ahvays to be 
on the ground, and only fly up into a fir tree AA^hen 
they arc flushed. Their flight is noisy and bustling, 
and they never go far. I never find them by any 
chance in the open, like the Black Grouse.” 
“They live in a state of monogamy, and Avith us 
the pairing takes place about the same time as that of 
the Capercaillie or Black Grouse. The note is a soft 
rather melancholy pipe, Avhich can he readily imitated 
by a Hjerpe Avhistle made of bone or quill. The 
call-note rather resembles Ti, li, titititi-ti.’ The note 
of the male is stronger than that of the female. By 
this note, AAdiich Ave ahvays hear from the ground, the 
sexes carry on their spring conversation, and in the 
autumn the mother uses the same kind of language to 
her young. As soon as the pairing is over the sexes 
divide. The males keep then single, and you never 
see three or four together. The female lays as many 
