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The sportsman & naturalist in Canada by Major W. Ross King 1866 Hurst & Blackett

Sexual selection & Expression

p. 53 With moose deer the female utters a peculiar call which attracts the males. When "two bulls chance to meet, laying back their ears & gnashing their teeth together, !!! they will rush at each other with appalling fury

[In margin:] Mammalia

p. 80 The caribou or Cervus tarandus Rein-deer of N. America.— the female furnished with antlers, which she retains till the spring, whilst the male shed his at the beginning of winter — so apparently useless for female.

p. 131. The note of female sometimes brings several males, when battle Royal ensues.

(p. 144. The Prairie Hen. (Cupidonia Cupido), has tufts of feathers or little "neck-wings," which a conceal a bare & yellow wrinkled skin, whilst the male inflates, when making in breeding season

[In margin:] Music

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p. 156 The Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa unbellus) "drums" by beating lowered wings on the trunk of some of fallen tree" sounds like distant thunder.

[Expression, p. 113.]