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HAZEL GROUSE. 
a lively rust-colour, which, however, is very scanty, and 
rapidly passes into a lighter shade. 
“The Hazel Grouse is found in the whole of Ainoor 
Land as far as I know it, from the southern coast of 
the Ochotsk Sea to the Bay of TIadshi, and on the 
island Sachalin, as well as at the mouth of the Amoor, 
to the sources of the river in Dauria. Everywhere, 
and at all seasons of the year, it is the most common 
of the feathered tribe. Scarcely any locality can be 
named where it is not found, yet it appears principally 
in the north of the Amoor, on the borders of rivers 
in the mixed forests of birch, aspen, poplar, alder, 
and willow bushes, and in the south principally in the 
li.o’ht-foliaffed woods and the underwood which grrows 
along the rocky banks of the rivers. Xot unfrequently, 
also, I have met with it in winter and summer on the 
willow-grown islands, or on such shores as those of 
the Amoor, Gorin, and Ussuri. In as great numbers 
did I find the Hazel Grouse in the wildest parts of 
the Amoor Land, where it was by no means shy. 
In the Nikolajev Posten, and on the Liver Tyrny, in 
Sachalin, I have been able to shoot several times at 
a pair of individuals in a tree before the others flew 
away. In Sachalin, and on the Gorin, they flew up 
before us and kept in a circuit round about us. In 
summer, when the noise of our movements roused them, 
they often settled down on a tree close by the river, 
enabling us to shoot them from our hiding-places. 
They were among the daily contents of our game-bag 
in the Amoor Land, where, as well as in the Bay of 
Hadschi and the snow-fields of Sachalin, they gave us 
as good sport as in the light and sunny oak hedges on 
the Ussuri. 
“In the summer of 1855 I found a nest with eggs 
