Great Nebraska · Letter, Lawrence Bruner to Marion Nelson, 1903, July 31

Letter, Lawrence Bruner to Marion Nelson, 1903, July 31

identifier/filename: 371-00031
title: Letter, Lawrence Bruner to Marion Nelson, 1903, July 31
description: Typewritten letter, 1 page, from Lawrence Bruner to Marion Nelson, "Yours of July 22d at hand in which you ask…"
Transcription: July 31, 1903 Mr Marion Nelson, Utica, Neb. My Dear Sir:- Yours of July 23 at hand in which you ask concerning the difference between the prairie chicken and the ruff/ grouse. The two birds are quite distinct, the prairie chicken being the ordinary bird which is common on our prairies, and which has spike-like feathers on the sides of the neck, especially of the male birds. The ruff/ grouse, or partridge as it is sometimes called, is found only in the wooded port ons of our state, and even there is very rare. The male of this bird, instead of having long feathers at the sides of the neck, has a ruff of long feathers about the neck, and the tail is much longer than that of the prairie chicken, and when spread out forms quite a fan. It is the bird concerning which the Irishman asked "What is it that you see in the woods which begins going faster and faster until it stops entirely," or the trumpet pheasant. Yours very truly,
date: 7/31/1903
source/RG#/MS#: MS 0371
isPartOf/Collection: Nebraska Ornithologists' Union (NOU), Records
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publisher: Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
language: English