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) Nek I have no positive proof, 
I believe the male grouse joins the 
hen and her then fully grown brood in 
mid fall. From then on lone grouse are 
more rare and large bands are often 
observed. I have sometimes wondered 
if the drumming of the males in the 
fall has anything to do with the re- 
union. Grouse drum occasionally in the 
summer. Often have I stepped out into 
the moonlight of a summer night, when 
the calls of insects and the fragrance 
of the swamps and the trilling of the 
toads soothed and gladened me, to hear 
the resonant beats of the lone drum- 
mer come floating, vibrant, on the night 
air—the most delightful of music. And 
in early September or October the drum- 
mers occasionally may even approach 
the enthusiasm of the spring. Whether 
these latter drummings have any more 
significance than that the bird is happy 
y] and exuberant (as are humans when 
. e they whistle and sing) I do not know. 
But, as mentioned above, it arouses 
some wonder and speculation. 











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I LOVE to go wandering about the 
woods in the early fall, just watch- 
ing and thinking and enjoying it all. 
And often on these little journeys I 
meet the ruffed grouse, feeding along 
the old logging roads used a half cen- 
tury previous. I have been curious to 
know what foods attracted him and so 
1 saved a number of stomachs from 
my hunting trips in October and sent 
them to the Biological Survey. Per- 
haps the analyses of four of these stom- 
achs will be of interest here. They 
contained the seeds of green-briars, 
hawthorn, wild buckwheat, wild coffee, 
and bur reed. There were the leaves 

OF Ce TUTTLE, 
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A orice. March 24, 1924. of the American aspen, necklace poplar, 
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Per ; : : 3 : : hs 
Wishing you success with this wonderful bug, I ae roa NE stomach contained 238 birch 
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It will interest the readers of Forest AND STREAM summer I flushed a band of young 
grouse, hardly more than three or four 
days old, from a large patch of wild 
strawberries, and before I could inter- 
fere, Dash, my dog companion, had 
seized and killed one of the young birds. 
I sent this stomach to Washington also, 
expecting it to be filled with berries. 
The analysis, however, showed that the 
bird had eaten very few berries but 
had fed almost entirely on insects. 
With the coming of winter and of 
heavy snowfalls the grouse fly under 
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