hopper system should be a great success in feeding quail. The hopper 
system is especially recommended for regions in which corn shocks are not

available. 
4. The Sharp-Tailed Grouse.--The sharp-tailed grouse and the prairie 
chicken have similar food habits during the summer and fall, but differences

in their winter feeding makes it difficult to feed the two together. The

feeding habits of the sharp-tailed grouse as outlined below are based on

observations made in Wood, Juneau, and Jackson counties. In the northern

counties their habits may be slightly different. 
In September and October sharp-tails gather in flocks from twenty to 
two hundred in stubble fields, especially buckwheat, to feed on the grain

which is on the ground. At this time of the year prairie chickens are 
likely to be found feeding with them. 
During November, the sharp-tails break up into flocks of from twenty 
to forty and go in search of aspen and white birch thickets. Once they 
have located a suitable patch of aspen or white birch, their movements 
are restricted to about one section of territory. Birds banded at three 
stations which were less than one mile apart, did not mix at any time 
during the winter. Two flocks which were feeding on aspen one mile from 
feeding stations never found the feeding stations. One feeding station in

a buckwheat field was not put up until Just after the sharp-tails had 
abandoned it. (November 24). This flock of sharp-tails fed on aspen and 
white birch buds only thirty rods from the feeding station all through 
December. In January a pile of cob corn was put on the ditch bank near 
the white birch on which the sharp-tails were feeding and in a few days 
the sharp-tails were feeding on this corn. On January 18th a line of cob

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