Bonasa umbella. Maine (Lake Umbagog). 1873. Sept. 10. Came upon a flock of six on the banks of Cambridge River. They were so tame that I easily killed them all, shooting 6 or in succession with my rifle. 1874. Aug. 4. Started five broods of young all about half-grown. They were all very tame. Most of them took to the trees when started and several made curious demonstrations, apparently of anger at my intrusion, ruffling their feathers, jerking their tails, and making a whistling and grunting noise. One of the old birds lay very closely before my setters point, squatting on the bare turf in a little opening not two yards ahead of him. " 6. Saw two large broods of young on the Tyler Path. " 24. Saw three broods on the road to the Sluice all unusually shy. One brood of about a dozen rose from a bed of brakes in an open clearing, going up one after another. Sept. 19. On the road to Bethel our team passed under one sitting on the branch of a poplar over the road, and so near that I could almost reach her with my hand. 1876. June 22. A brood of young, apparently just hatched, following the mother through the woods. 1880. June 22. All the hunters here believe that the male Ruffed Grouse frequently takes charge of a brood of young. Alva Coolidge to-day came across such a family and he is certain that the parent in charge was a male. He also thinks that those birds regularly pair. That this is the case with the Spruce Grouse is unanimously asserted here. The woodsmen always find the paired birds together in the spring. Sept. 17. Coming down Cambridge River this evening we started two Grouse from a Virburnum entago on the bank. They feed much on the berries of this bush this season. 1882. Oct. 8-22 Abundant. They feed on birch buds, poplar leaves, leaves of Oxalis, berries of Viburnum opulus and mountain ash, and grasshoppers. 1874. Sept. 14. My setter pointed a brood of six among some weeds in an open fields nearly an hundred yards from the edge of the woods.