The Birds of New England And Adjacent States Arranged By a Long Approved C
The Birds of New England And Adjacent States Arranged By a Long Approved C
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I have always observed them to avoid the high- timbered groves that occur here and there in the Barrens. Con- nected with this fact is a circumstance related to me by a very respectable inhabitant of that country ; viz. , that, one forenoon, a cock Grouse struck the stone chimney of his house with such force as instantly to fall dead to the ground.
" Secondly, their known dislike of ponds, marshes, or watery places, which they avoid on all occasions ; drinking but seldom, and, it is believed, n...ever from such places. Even in confinement, this peculiarity has been taken notice of. While I was in the State of Tennessee, a person living within a few miles of Nashville had caught an old hen Grouse in a trap ; and, being obliged to keep her in a large cage, as she struck and abused the rest of the poultry, he remarked that she never drank, and that she even avoided that quarter of the cage where the cup containing the water was placed. Happening, one day, to let some water fall on the cage, it trickled down in drops along the bars, which the bird no sooner observed than she eagerly picked them off, drop by drop, with a dexterity that showed she had been habituated to this mode of quenching her thirst, and probably to this mode only, in those dry and barren tracts, where, except the drops of dew and drops of rain, water is 25 386 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
I have always observed them to avoid the high- timbered groves that occur here and there in the Barrens. Con- nected with this fact is a circumstance related to me by a very respectable inhabitant of that country ; viz. , that, one forenoon, a cock Grouse struck the stone chimney of his house with such force as instantly to fall dead to the ground.
" Secondly, their known dislike of ponds, marshes, or watery places, which they avoid on all occasions ; drinking but seldom, and, it is believed, n...ever from such places. Even in confinement, this peculiarity has been taken notice of. While I was in the State of Tennessee, a person living within a few miles of Nashville had caught an old hen Grouse in a trap ; and, being obliged to keep her in a large cage, as she struck and abused the rest of the poultry, he remarked that she never drank, and that she even avoided that quarter of the cage where the cup containing the water was placed. Happening, one day, to let some water fall on the cage, it trickled down in drops along the bars, which the bird no sooner observed than she eagerly picked them off, drop by drop, with a dexterity that showed she had been habituated to this mode of quenching her thirst, and probably to this mode only, in those dry and barren tracts, where, except the drops of dew and drops of rain, water is 25 386 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY.
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