. Cassell's book of Birds . il cours de la même hiverun ami de moi, qui a été passionné de tir à la carabine, a tué plus de quarante personnes en un matin, mais n'a pas été pickeno d'entre elles; ainsi satié avec Grouse était lui aussi bien que chaque membre de sa famille. Mes fonctionnaires préféraient le fétiche de bacon à leur chair et ne les ont pas souvent mis de côté pour cuisiner. Un tel compte semble encore plus étrange quand nous apprenons que dans le même pays où il y a soixante ans, ils n'auraient pas pu être vendus pour plus d'un cent d'une pièce, à peine un est maintenant à décaper. Les Grouse ont abandonné l'État
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. Cassell's book of birds . he course of the same wintera friend of mine, who was fond of rifle-shooting, killed upwards of forty in one morning, but pickednone of them up; so satiated with Grouse was he as well as every member of his family. My ownservants preferred the fattest flitch of bacon to their flesh, and not unfrequently laid them aside asunfit for cooking. Such an account appears still more strange when we learn that in the same country where sixtyyears ago they could not have been sold for more than a cent a-piece, scarcely one is now to befound. The Grouse have abandoned the State of Kentucky, and removed (like the Indians) everyseason further westward to escape from the murderous white man. In the Eastern States wheresome of them still exist, game-laws have been made for their protection. The Pinnated Grouseselects for its abode wide prairies and treeless land covered only with grass or scattered bushes, and has hence received the name of the Prairie Hen; it does not, however, avoid cultivated land, . flair iZ Caxsah, Buoh ZfBinL- C0L13MBA LIVIA/ii/ ROCI PI&EON GA..i^.iiLj>jc. iviM USA GALLINACEOUS BIRDS. 193 but readily avails itself of the plentiful supplies of food to be found there. This species is more strictly confined to the ground than any other of its kindred, and seldom ascends the trees or bushes except in search of fruits or berries, or when pressed by severe weather. In winter these birds go on expeditions which have been called migrations, but though these occur with some regularity, their only object is to seek for favourable feeding-places. Even these short journeyings are not always undertaken, but take place in certain winters, so that many sportsmen are under the impression that these birds are non-migratory. This species is less elegant than the Ruffled Grouse, its walk resembling that of the Common Hen, although it carries its head more erect If surprised it rises at once; but if it perceives the sportsmen from a distance and the
