RUFFED GROV SZ-(Bonasa umbellus.) 
Prevailing color of the upper parts rufous, much variegated with 
Ijlack, buffy, gray, and whitish; sides of neck with large tufts of broad, 
■glossy black feathers ; tail varying from gray to rufous, irregularly barred 
and mottled with black, a broad black or brownish band near the end; 
tip of tail gray; throat and breast ochraceous-buff, a broken blackish line 
on the breast; rest of under parts white, tinged with buffy and barred 
blackish or dark grayish brown, the bars indistinct on the breast and 
belly, stronger on the sides. 
Female, similar but with neck tufts very small. 
-Length about seventeen inches. 
-Resident. 
^Favorite Haunts. In the woods. 
'Field Marks. A large brownish bird nearly as large as a hen. which 
makes a loud whirring noise when flying. 
Note. "Quit, quit, quit."' many times repeated. 
Photographed from life. 
"When walking in' the woods we are startled by a loud noise of 
wHrring of wings and a ruffed grouse flies rapidly away. Or, in the 
^summer time, we come across the mother grouse with her brood of 
young. She will try to lead us away from them by pretending to be in- 
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