The Sage-Hen 



Taken in Oregon 

 Photo by William L. Finley 



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the fact that the Sage Cock is found at such distances from water, we are 

 forced to conclude that the dew-covered browse of the Artemisia must 

 often serve the bird in lieu of water. As to food, this Grouse has so long 

 depended upon the leaves and tender shoots of the sage-brush and grease- 

 wood for subsistence, that it is incapable of digesting grain when it is 

 offered. The bird's gizzard, unlike that of other grouse, is not a strong, 

 muscular grinding-organ, but a membranous sac capable of great dis- 

 tension, but unequal to the task of reducing seeds, grains, or even hard- 

 shelled beetles. The bird's spring diet is varied by many kinds of tender 

 herbage, and in summer it consumes quantities of crickets, grasshoppers 

 and other insects, but sage is eaten at all seasons and forms its exclusive 

 ration in winter. 



In spite of this monotonous and bit- 

 ter fare the flesh of the adult Sage Grouse 

 is far from unpalatable, especially if 

 speedily prepared ; while birds of the year 

 in the fall are as wholesome as those of 

 any other species. In fact, much that 

 has been written about "fishy" ducks 

 and "sagey" grouse has been derived 

 from specimens left about 

 undrawn until the charac- 

 teristic flavors of the intes- 

 tinal contents have 

 permeated the flesh, — ob- 

 viously, an unfair test in 

 case of a pronounced diet 

 either of clams or worm- 

 wood . 



Grouse move 

 about in 

 coveys, 

 family 

 groups, in 

 which the 

 mother re- 

 mains a cen- 

 tral figure, 

 until late 

 autumn. 

 At that sea- 

 son several 



