. Un manuel populaire de l'ornithologie des États-Unis et du Canada [microforme] : basé sur lapin de manuel. Les oiseaux d'eau ; l'eau-oiseaux, ornithologie, oiseaux aquatiques, oiseaux aquatiques ; Ornithologie. Je ' 3 CKOUSE^3. LA FAMILLE. ,IH ; 7. Selon Wilson, ils sont également toujours rencontré parmi les scnib-chêne et pin-collines de I'ocono iNorthani, dans|)tonne county, New York, 'j'hé sont également plutôt commun dans les landes du Kentucky et dans les prairies de l'Indiana, et au sud jusqu'à Nashville au Tennessee, mais je crois pas- où plus abondant que sur les plaines du Missouri, d'où e

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. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada [microform] : based on Nuttall's Manual. Water-birds; Water-birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux aquatiques; Ornithologie. I ' 3^3 CKOUSE FAMILY.. , IH; week. According to Wilson, they are also still met with among the scnib-oak and pine-hills of I'ocono, in iNorthani|)ton county, Pennsylvania, 'i'hey are also rather common through- out the barrens of Kentucky and on the prairies of Indiana, and as far south as Nashville in Tennessee, but I believe no- where more abundant than on the plains of Missouri, whence they continue to the Rocky Mountains. Dislike of moisture, as with the Turkey, but princii)ally the nature of their food, apjiears to influence them in the choice of their resort. The small acorns of the dwarf-oaks, and various kinds of '-ild fruits, as strawberries, whortleberries, and ])artridge-berries, with oc- casional insects abounding in these wooded thickets, appear to be the principal inducement to their residence ; from which they rarely wander at any season, unless compelled by a failure of their usual food, and so become, notwithstanding the almost inaccessible nature of the ground, a sure prey to the greedy and exterminating hunter. In the Western States, where they appear as an abundant species, they are at times observed to traverse the ])lains and even cross extensive rivers in (]uest of the means of subsistence. In winter they likewise feed on buds as well as mast, sometimes swallowing leaves, and occa- sionally the buds of the pine. At times, if convenient, they have been known to visit the buckwheat field for their fare, or even devour the leaves of clover. In wintry storms they seek shelter by perching in the evergreens; but in spring and summer they often roost on the ground in company. They feed mostly in the morning and evening ; and when they can stir abroad without material molestation, they often visit arable lands in the vicinity of their retreats. In t

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