(3) Bonasa u. togata 1889. Maine. L. Umbagog. difference in this respect between the birds found about the farming country at the lower end of the lake and those which inhabited the unbroken forest at the upper end of the lake, the latter being much the tamer. Many hunters believe there is a migration of these Grouse from the north late in the autumn, but I am inclined to think that, as a rule, the birds come no further than from the mountain side and the tops of the highest ridges. During the winter they are said to leave the swamps and lowland altogether and to resort to the high ground where the woods are composed of desiduous trees. Their food at this season is almost exclu- sively buds, chiefly those of the poplar and birch. Although in autumn they are generally distributed throughout all the wood region bordering the lake and its neighboring rivers, one is most apt to find them in woods composed of a mixture of ev- ergreens and hard wood. They haunt especially the neighbor- hood of old camps and wet places such as the borders of small brooks and springy spots in the woods, especially where moun- tain maples grow. Late in the afternoon, particularly about sun-set, they frequently come out of the woods along the ed- ges of meadows, attracted there by black alder bushes on the berries of which they freely feed. They are seldom seen in heavy, unmixed spruce timber, and almost never in larch or ar- bor vitae swamps such as are frequented by the Spruce Grouse. 27