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Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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WHAT THE CAT LEFT
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RUFFED GROUSE ABOUT TO DRUM(10) Photographing a Ruffed Grouse By JOHN WOODCOCK, Minnedosa, Man.With a photograph by the author ON May 24, 1908, I took my camera, a 4 x 5 Pony Premo, with an ordi-nary cheap lens, and set out for a bluff which I knew to be a favoriteresort of Ruffed Grouse. The morning had been dark and gloomy withrain at intervals, but about 3 p.m. the clouds cleared away and the sun shone out,though not quite so brightly as was desirable for snapshot photography. As soon as I reached the woods I heard a Grouse drumming, and soon cameupon him standing on a large decayed log. Walking slowly up, I seated myselfabout thirty yards away and awaited developments. For about five minutes hehardly moved, then suddenly sat down on the log, and, with tail expanded andhead thrust forward, began to flap his wings, slowly at first, but after three orfour strokes moving them so rapidly as to make them almost invisible. Thewings were held so as to beat forward and not down toward the

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