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Meanings of ruffed grouse in English

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Valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada.

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        Usage of ruffed grouse in English
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        There goes a ruffed grouse from the snow, scarce a rod ahead.
        Some Winter Days in Iowa
        2
        They were not ruffed grouse, but a kindred kind, new to Rolf.
        Rolf in the Woods
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        The woods contain partridge, or ruffed grouse, and other game in smaller quantities.
        The Celebrity, Volume 03
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        There was a mad whirring and fluttering from the ruffed grouse.
        Out with Gun and Camera; or, The Boy Hunters in the Mountains
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        I felt sure the bird was the ruffed grouse, and a very fine specimen.
        Swiss Family Robinson
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        Pheasants ( ruffed grouse), wild turkey and other game birds are nearly extinct.
        Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
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        Pileated woodpecker, woodcock, ruffed grouse, pigeon hawk, duck hawk.-(Amos W. Butler, Indianapolis.)
        Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
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        On one wood portage he, or rather Skookum, put up a number of ruffed grouse.
        Rolf in the Woods
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        The game birds included 8 quail, 1 ruffed grouse and 5 pigeons.
        Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
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        The ruffed grouse and the tule hens are plentiful, and of course nothing can be more delicious.
        Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
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        Were it not that it has recourse to budding, the ruffed grouse would be obliged to migrate.
        Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
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        He thought-howfar back it seemed-ofthe farmers' dinners, and the turkey and ruffed grouse and woodcock.
        A Man and a Woman
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        The ruffed grouse is a beautiful bird.
        On the Trail: An Outdoor Book for Girls
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        What a toothsome bird, too, is your ruffed grouse, how plump and yet gamey to the taste!
        A Man and a Woman
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        There are a fair number of ruffed grouse in the south, and more spruce grouse in the north.
        Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador / An Address Presented by Lt.-Col...
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        Grouse, too, were numerous in the popple thickets, and flushed much like our ruffed grouse of the East.
        The Mountains
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