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BIRDS OF NEW MEXICO 
Food.— In 45 crops and stomachs examined, the food consisted of 6.73 per cent 
animal matter—5.73 per cent grasshoppers, and the rest beetles, ants, and cater¬ 
pillars—and 93.27 per cent vegetable matter—seeds, fruits, and leaves, coniferous 
foliage amounting to 54.02 per cent, fruits 20.09 per cent, including manzanita 
berries, mountain ash, service-berry, currant, gooseberry, etc. One cock shot 
Map 3. Dusky Grouse 
Shaded areas show former and present range. Apparently none now remain 
in the Zuni Mountains or on top of Mount Taylor (Ligon, 1926) 
at 11,600 feet on Pecos Baldy in a strawberry patch had both crop and gizzard 
filled mainly with strawberries. The crop of another shot between 8,000 and 9,000 
feet contained 27 strawberries, 28 bear-berries, 12 .Canadian buffalo-berries, flowers 
of Indian paint brush and milk vetch, leaves of vetch and buffalo-berry, and a few 
ants and caterpillars, while its gizzard was filled with seeds of bear-berry, Canadian 
buffalo-berry, and strawberry, a few green leaves, and a number of ants, beetles, 
and other insects. Grasshoppers, the green leaves of blue-berry and vetch, salal, 
and other berry seeds, needles of Douglas spruce and fir, together with gravel and 
