The Ruffed Grouse, which is called Partridge in New England and Pheasant in the Middle and Southern States, is the true Grouse, while Bob White is the real Partridge.
The range of the Ruffed Grouse is eastern United States, south to North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, and Arkansas.
I said at the first that the Ruffed Grouse stay with us all the year.
Like the Turkey, the Ruffed Grouse has a habit of pluming and strutting, and also makes the drumming noise which has caused so much discussion.
The Ruffed Grouse has a queer way of calling his mate.
When long suits have been announced, the chances are that the suit led will be ruffed on the third round, if not earlier.
The ruffed lemur is the largest of these curious animals, being about as big as a good-sized cat.
On such a day, even in the cold of January, you may hear a ruffed grouse drum.
On a woodcock haunted slope or in a thicket beloved of ruffed grouse I almost always feel as if my camp had been pitched in some previous existence and I had just got home again, though the place, perhaps, ought to be new to me.
They are rather sluggish in their habits, compared to our Ruffed Grouse, and usually try to escape by running or hiding rather than by taking wing; when they do fly, they go in a straight line and rather slowly.
Like our common Ruffed Grouse, during mating season, the males of this species strut about with tail fully spread over the back, and head thrown back until it nearly touches the tail.
We had hunted for an hour or more, when a half-dozen ruffed grouse flushed from under the top of a fallen tree and flew up into the branches of a big fir, where they sat and craned their necks.
Presently a covey of ruffed grouse, flying up out of the snow into the pines, afforded easy shots; but we dared not risk our arrows for fear of shattering the points against the solid wood.
The first game we saw were a number of ruffed grouse standing in a row at the edge of a strip of open water, to take their daily drink.
All the hair on her shoulders and back was ruffed and bristling forward, while her eyes blazed with anger, although there was also in them the look of terror and despair.
As I was picking my way over the miry ground and through the rank growths, a ruffed grouse hopped up on a fallen branch a few paces before me, and jerking his tail, threatened to take flight.
I have known the ruffed grouse to come out of a dense wood and make its nest at the root of a tree within ten paces of the road, where, no doubt, hawks and crows, as well as skunks and foxes, would be less likely to find it out.
I have heard the hairbird, and the note of the kingbird; and the ruffedgrouse frequently drums at night.
Ruffed Grouse drumming, the last of the season, also a Bittern pumping, some Cranes trumpeting, and a Wood Frog croaking.
A cock Partridge or Ruffed Grouse came and drummed on a log in open view, full sunlight, fifty feet away.
Spruce Partridge as well as the Ruffed species became common: one morning some of the former marched into camp at breakfast time.
Hallock says that in common with the Ruffed Grouse (see BIRDS, Vol.
Its food and habits are similar to those of the Ruffed Grouse.
Though too wild and shy, he said, to be domesticated, there is no reason why it might not live and thrive in any pine lands where the Ruffed Grouse is found.
The size of the Dusky Grouse is nearly twice that of the Ruffed Grouse, a full-grown bird weighing from three to four pounds.
The woods contain partridge, or ruffed grouse, and other game in smaller quantities.
And, though the month was March, the slopes of Burrow Head were green as the lawn of Carvel Hall in May, and the slanting rays danced on the ruffed water.
They were not ruffed grouse, but a kindred kind, new to Rolf.
On one wood portage he, or rather Skookum, put up a number of ruffed grouse.
You can mostly get them this way; sure, if you have a dog to help, but ruffed grouse is no such fool.
It was a rather shallow affair, composed of cedar twigs and bark, plant fibers, a piece of string and pine needles, and was lined with a few horse hairs and many Ruffed Grouse feathers.
Later, in the darkness, we heard the drumming like distant thunder of the ruffed grouse.
We had seen an American bittern boom--a rarer sight even than the drumming of a ruffed grouse or the strange flight-song of the woodcock at twilight.
Mrs. Ruffed Grouse, known in that part of the country as partridge, was breakfasting in the open path with at least a dozen little grouse--or is it greese.
Again and again it sounded, like the singing ripple of a trout brook or the happy little cradle-song that a mother ruffed grouse makes when she broods her leaf-brown chicks.
There was a tremendous whirring noise, the snow exploded all over me, and out burst a magnificent cock partridge, as we call the ruffed grouse in New England, and whizzed away among the laurels like a lyddite shell.
The Ruffed or Variable Lemur derives its name from the remarkable variability of its external markings: so much is this the case, indeed, that not a few of them have been described as distinct species.
In these depths, and oftenest near a bog or marsh, you may also hear the call of the partridge, or more properly, the ruffed grouse.
Stalking the Ruffed Grouse= If you want to see the birds, stalk them when you hear their call.
You will know the woodcock from the ruffed grouse by his long bill, his short legs, and his very short tail.
Even the wary Ruffed Grouse will leave the shelter of the barren woods, and the farmer finds her in the morning sitting among the branches of his apple tree, relieving the twigs of their buds.
In winter ruffed grouse have a habit of burrowing deep beneath the snow and letting the storm shut them in.
In the uplands we may flush ruffed grouse from their snug retreats in the snow; while in the weedy fields, many a fairy trail shows where bob-white has passed, and often he will announce his own name from the top of a rail fence.
In the far north, the grouse or ptarmigan, as they are called, do not keep feathers of the same colour the year round, as does our ruffed grouse; but change their dress no fewer than three times.
As we walk through the October woods a covey of ruffed grouse springs up before us, overhead a flock of robins dashes by, and the birds scatter to feed among the wild grapes.
Up from a ravine on the right came, again and again at short intervals, the vibrating thunder of the ruffed grouse's drumming, low and muttering at first, and finally dying away into the silence.
About Victoria there were found, he said, two species of grouse,--the ruffed grouse and the blue grouse.
The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wings upon his sides.
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