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Identifier: americangamebird00grin (find matches)
Title: American game-bird shooting
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938
Subjects: Game and game-birds Hunting
Publisher: New York, Forest and stream publishing company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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dgrouse. This call and the accompanying mating ac-tions were well described by a correspondent, Stand-stead, in Forest and Stream twenty years ago. Hewrote: While driving near the city. (Victoria, B. C)with the veteran shot, R. Maynard, we saw a pair ofblue grouse quite near the trail, and the cock bird gaveus a most entertaining exhibition of the charms that hedisplays in wooing his mate. Like a turkey cock hestrutted about with his wings trailing on the ground,his tail feathers erect and spread out farf-like to theirfullest extent, his neck distended, and on each side ofhis neck the feathers were turned out so as to resemblea pair of round white rosettes, nearly three inches indiameter, with an oblong red spot in their center, wherethe skin of the neck was exposed. His head seemedto be crowned with a fiery red comb. Excepting therosettes, he was in appearance a miniature turkey gob-bler. Every few seconds he would strut up to his de-mure but sleek-looking mate, puff out his neck and
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Sierra Dusky Grouse and young. From group in American Museum of Natural History. DUSKY GROUSE 119 with a jerky movement of his head utter his boom,or hoot, boom-boom-boom. As he grew more andmore demonstrative in his actions, his modest mateflew up to an overhanging limb to escape his familiari-ties, and we drove away, leaving him still strutting onthe ground underneath the tree where his mate satperched. Another writer refers to the sound uttered at thisseason by the male dusky grouse as growling orgroaning, and notes, as have many others, the pe-culiarity that when near it often seems quite distant,and when distant it sometimes seems near, appearing tocome from every direction but the true one. The female usually makes her nest in the open at thefoot of the mountains, quite a little way fromthe timber, perhaps under some little clump of brush atthe foot of a steep bluff, partly clad with pines, orperhaps among the aspens in some mountain valley.The eggs vary in number from seven to

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  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Grinnell__George_Bird__1849_1938
  • booksubject:Game_and_game_birds
  • booksubject:Hunting
  • bookpublisher:New_York__Forest_and_stream_publishing_company
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Institution_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian
  • bookleafnumber:160
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
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