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Bonasa umbellus togata.
MAINE, (L. Umbagog.)
Bonasa umbella togata
1885
Oct. 9 Very scarce, only a few killed, and then
without exception adults. The little must have
killed all the young.
On Oct. 16 I heard three drumming in the swamps
bordering Cambridge River; the first about noon in
an alder swamp where the warm sunshine flooded
his retreat, The second at sunset among dark thicket
growing spruces on a hillside where immense mossy
logs were piled on one another in great confusion,
The third in open hardwood timber after it had
became nearly dark and where an Owl (Bubo vir)