Bonasa umbolla. 
1873. 
Sept.10. 
1874. 
Maine (Lake Umbagog!. 
Came upon a flock of six on the banks of Canbridgo 
River. They wore so tame that I easily killed them all 
shooting f) ur in succession v/i th my rifle. ' 
Aug. 4, 
“ 6 . 
" 24. 
Sept. 19, 
1876. 
June 22. 
1880. 
Started five broods of young all about half-grovm 
Tey were all very tame. Most of them took to the trees 
vdien started and several made curious demonstrations 
apparently of anger ay my intrusion, ruffling their ' 
feathers, jerking their tails, and making a whistling 
and grunting noise. One of the old birds lay very 
closely before my setters point, squatting on the bare 
te.rf in a little openiiig not two yards ahead of him. 
Sav; two large broofis of young on the Tyler Path. 
Saw three broods on the road to the Sluice all unu¬ 
sually shy. One brood of about a dozen rose from a 
bed of brakes in an open clearing, going up one after 
another. 
On the road to ^;ethel our team passed under one 
sitting on the branch of a poplar over the road, and so 
neai that I could almost reach her with my hand. 
A brood of young, apparently just hatched, 
the mother thi'ough the "woods. 
follov/ing 
June 22. 
Sdpt.l7, 
All the hunters here believe that the male Ruffed 
rouse frequently takes charge of a firood of young 
Alva Goolidge to-day --- - ^ ng. 
came across such a family and he 
thinks t:,at tnoso birds regularly pair. That this is 
hora*^^^ Tb^ Sorueo Grouso is unaninously assorted 
horo. The „oodsmen al-.vays find the paired birds to- 
llgether in the spring. 
Coming dovm Cambridge River this evening y;e start 
?Ld r “r"” aun® on the Lk. 
feed M,oh on tho berries of this bush this season. 
1882, i 
leavef ofoxal'■ lo-res 
ash o'" lilWhum 0 £ulu^ and mounta: 
tisn, and grasshoppers. 
1874. 
Sept.14. 
My setter pointed a brood of six among some we-^ds 
in an open fields nearlv on ^ -^eeds 
edge of the v^ods ‘^3 
