...until the first fall of snow buries their fo: aging grounds and drives them en masse to the w< ods. During the summer the habits of the chickens are eminently...a properly adapted perching bird, for they spend a largo part of their time in the highest trees, flying from one to another and perching, browsing, or...

...clucking fully three-fourths of all reasonable chances. Winter. — Seton (Thompson, 1890) writes: During the summer the habits of the chickens are eminently...on the ground ; but the first snow makes a radical cUtnge. They now act more like a properly adapted perching bird, for they spend a large part of their...

...W( <ds. During the summer the habits of the chickens are eminently terestrial; they live, feed, aud sleep almost exclusively on the ground but the first...snow makes a radical change. They now act more like apropcrly adapted perching bird, for they spend a large part of th«r time in the highest trees, flying...

...of suow buries their fo' aging grounds and drives them en masse to the W( ods. During the summer tho habits of the chickens are eminently terrestrial;...feed, and sleep almost exclusively on the ground; but tho first suow makes a radical change. They now act more like a properly adapted perching bird, for...