A few days ago some car repairers, working 
near the Erie R. R. car shops here, causTht a 
full gi-own, healthy ruffed grouse which was 
feeding on grain which had fallen from crip- 
pled cars. About three hundred yards distant 
is a wooded hill and the bird must have come 
down into the railroad yard to feed. But why 
it should do this at this season is more than I 
can tell, and it is still more difficult to under- 
stand why the bird allowed itself to be cauffh^ 
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