210 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 Amoor 

 Land as far as I know it, from the southern coast of 

 the Ochotsk Sea to the Bay of Hadshi, and on the 

 island Sachalin, as well as at the mouth of the Amoor, 

 to the sources of the river in Dauria. EveryAvhere, 

 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.oht-foliased woods and the underwood which grows 

 along the rocky banks of the rivers. Not 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 River 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 



