Identifier: storiesaboutbird00kirb (find matches)
Title: Stories about birds of land and water
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Kirby, Mary, 1817-1893 Kirby, Elizabeth, 1823-1873
Subjects: Birds -- Juvenile literature
Publisher: Hartford (Conn.) : American Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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- THE PINNATED GROUSE. 199 strut and boom and provoke each other, until fierce battles begin, and theyscream and leap from the ground, and grow very excited indeed. The Indian, from his lair, sees all this, and watches the moment whentwo cocks are fighting with fury. He has his gun in his hand, and fires with
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THE TRAIRIE HEN. effect. Indeed, he has killed so many birds in this manner, that they beginto be afraid of coming, and will perch on the trees instead of alighting onthe ground. There was a time when the pinnated grouse was very plentiful indeedin that part of the world. The hunter of Kentucky hardly took the troubleto shoot them ; and in some places they did a great deal of mischief among STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. Ishe fruit-trees in the orchards, and picked off the young buds; and alsoamong the grain in the fields. The farmer used to set his children to frighten them away with rattlesfrpm morning till night ; and he set traps for them, and did all he could todestroy them. In the winter they were so tame they would come into thefarmyard and feed with the poultry, or even walk in the village street likethe cocks and the hens. And when they were shot they were often left to liedead on the ground. The hunter did not care to pick them up, for he hadeaten so much grouse that he was more than

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