1889 . 
Maine. 
L. Umbagog. 
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difference in this respect between the birds found about the 
farming country at the lower end of the lake and those which 
inhabited the unbroken forest at the upper end of the lake, 
the latter being much the tamer. 
Many hunters believe there is a migration of these Grouse 
from the north late m the autumn, but I am inclined to think 
that / as a rule / the birds corao no further than from the mountain 
side and the tops of the high@w*t ridges. During the winter 
they are said to leave the swamps and lowland altogether and 
to resort to the high ground where the woods are composed of 
desiduous trees. Their food at this season is almost exclu¬ 
sively buds, chiefly those of the poplar and birch. Although 
m autumn they are generally distributed throughout all the 
wood region bordering the lake and its neighboring rivers, one 
is most apt to find them m woods composed of a mixture of ev¬ 
ergreens and hard wood. They haune especially the neighbor¬ 
hood. of old camps and wet places such as the borders of small 
brooks and springy spots in the woods, especially where moun¬ 
tain maples grow. Late in the afternoon, particularly about 
sun-set, they frequently come out of the woods along the ed¬ 
ges of meadows, attracted there by black alder bushes on the 
berries of which they freely feed. They are seldom seen m 
heavy, unmixed spruce timber, and almost never in larch or ar¬ 
bor vitae swamps such as are frequented by the Spruce Grouse. 
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