Bonasa u. ogale Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1889 Maine Oct. 21 B. Umbagog -- Found a flock of m.f. together on the bare shore & shot them all sitting. There were four ♀♀, one young ♂ and one very large fine old drummer. The latter repeatedly strutted with tail raised perfectly erect and spread like a fan at the same time shaking his ruffs and nodding his head. He acted precisely as if he were threatening me. The others merely walked along very slowly continually pausing & standing erect to look at me with simple curiosity apparently. All (including the drummers) uttered the usual red-squirrel-like chatter or chitter except one which having flown a few rods and alighted on a log called coo-coo-coo-coo very softly at intervals of a few seconds. I have heard this call but once before - Sept. 25-1889 on the Megalloway when I took it at first for a muskrats peculiar murmur which it rather closely resembles. The bird making it to say was a ♀. For two weeks or more Grouse have been feeding largely on buds. They also eat the berries of the black alder and various leaves. One had two large white root tubers in its crop. Another had the crop entirely filled with the leaves of a fern (Dicksonia, I believe). I have never found the needles of any of the conifers in the crops of them maine Grouse. " 25 Long after sunset, nearly dark in fact, a Grouse flew across Rapid River & alighted in a thicket of yew on an island within a few yards of me. For several minutes I could hear her rustling among the dry leaves. I finally went in & trampled the bed over but failed to flush her. Afterwards my guide tried and started her within 5 yards of where we saw her alight. I was convinced that she had settled herself for the night flying to her bed as one would do. Roosting on an island & flying to bed.