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Title: Bulletin (Pennsylvania Game Commision), no. 11
Identifier: bulletinpennsylv11penn (find matches)
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Game Commission
Subjects: Game protection; Birds
Publisher: Harrisburg, Pa. : Pennsylvania Game commission
Contributing Library: Penn State University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Photograph by Game Commissioner Ross L. Leffler, McKeesport. Fig. 10. A FEEDING-SHELTER FOR BOB-WHITES BUILT BY BOY SCOUTS HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGE Normal Food: Tliis bird of the open field lives upon weed and grass seed almost exclusively during the winter. Since the birds inhabit only the wide treeless fields, they exist chiefly upon the seeds of plants which grow strictly in the open. Food at Shelters: Commercial scratch feed, good screenings, commercial chick feed, wheat, oats, rye, barley, broom corn, millet and sunflower seed. 23 RUFFED GROUSE Normal Food: The grouse eats many different forms of winter food. It eats the buds and terminal twigs of birch, aspen, poplar, fire cherry, apple, hawi^horn, and wild rose; occasionally it eats the buds and leaves of the hemlock. It is very fond of berries and pulpy fruits which can be found above the snow. Among them are huckle- berries, winter-green berries, fruit of the jack-in-the-pulpit, redhaws, rose hips, black haws, and apples. They often eat leaves of the winter-green berry and laurel during Avinter. On the ground they occasionally find weed seeds, small acorns and beech nuts and at the edge of the woodland the fruit of bitter-sweet, Avild grapes and Vir- ginia creeper. Grouse do not often feed upon w^aste grain because they do not come into the open as a rule.
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Photograph by George Miksch, Sutton. Vig. 17. THE TOES OF THE RUFB^ED GROUSE HAVE LATERAL SCALES IN WINTER WHICH SERVE AS SNOWSHOES Grouse vary their diet considerably from day to day. On one day an individual may consume little aside from buds; on another day it will subsist chiefly on wild grapes. While this rather unique custom may be the result of availability of food, it suggests the possibility either that food at a shelter should be considerably varied, or that we need not expect grouse to come regularly to the shelter to feed upon the same grain daily. Food at Shelters: Commercial scratch feed, wheat, rye, buck-

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