SummerBesidents on Southwest 
Ooasto. Marne. T.H, Montgomery, Jr. 
' j 300. Ruffed Grouse. Saw three or four at 
' Boothbay, in the tliickets. 
O^andO. I6« Kov.1890, p.Wi 
Fal 1 Birds of Northern Maine. 
F. H. Carpenter. 
Ruffled Grouse {Boriosa umhellus). Only two 
seen, and one of those was minus a tail, pre- 
senting a queer spectacle. 
O.&O. XII.Nov.1887 p.188 
j; also an Albino 
B uffed Grous e showing entire light plum- 
age, not pure white, but of a light cream 
color throughout. Harry Merrill has a 
specimen showing one or two white prima- 
ries, but this is the only perfect Albino I 
remember of being taken in this section. 
It is a male and its ruffs, although quite 
large are so near the shade of neck and 
back as to be scarcely discernable at first 
sight. It was taken at Danforth, Me., Nov. 
10 . 
Summer Birds Tim Pond Me. by F. 11. C. 
Ruffed Grouse, (Bouum iimbellus). Common, 
and lacked the wildness of those of same species 
seen in the clearing. 
O.&O. XI. Feb. less. p. .2 j', 
Birds of Dead River Region, Me. F.H.O. 
92. Bonasa ximiellus, (Ruffed Grouse). This 
species was very common about Tim and Seven 
Ponds, and equally indifferent to tlie presence of 
man as the preceding. My friend W. G. of Spring- 
field, Mass., attempted to hook one by the under 
mandable, from a flock sitting on a log by the 
camp spring. Reeling up his line until but five 
inches of leader hung from the tip of his rod, lie 
guided file barb under the beak of the wondering 
Grouse and struck in approved Waltonian style! 
His dainty nine ounce rod might be sufficient to 
bring to creel the finny trout, but not to bag tlie 
feathered Grouse. A whirr of wings and clicking of 
reel followed the strike and the valiant fisherman 
found himself “out” of three feet of “mist- 
colored” leader and a Scarlet Ibis fly, while his 
f2o hexagonal” w'ould not have brought as 
many cents at a Boston “uncle’s ” office. Friend 
G. now hunts Maine grouse with his 12-bore 
Parker. 
O.&O. XI. Deo. 1886. p. 178 
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