{"id":827,"date":"2012-07-31T12:55:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T12:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=827"},"modified":"2012-07-31T12:55:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T12:55:52","slug":"the-ruffed-grouse-audubon-bird-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2012\/07\/31\/the-ruffed-grouse-audubon-bird-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ruffed Grouse (Audubon &#8220;bird of the week&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/07\/IMG_2313.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-828\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/07\/IMG_2313-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/07\/IMG_2313-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/07\/IMG_2313-1024x647.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;You are now presented,kind reader, with a species of Grouse, which, in my humble opinion, far surpasses as an article of food every other land bird which we have in the United States, except the Wild Turkey, when in good condition.\u00a0 You must not be surprised that I thus express an opinion contradictory to that of our Eastern epicures, who greatly prefer the flesh of the Pinnated Grouse to that of the present species, for I have had abundant opportunity of knowing both . . .<\/p>\n<p>The names of <em>Pheasant<\/em> and <em>Partridge<\/em> have been given to the present species by our forefathers, in the different districts where it is found.\u00a0 To the west of the Alleghanies, and on these mountains, the first name is generally used.\u00a0 The same appellation is employed in the Middle Districts, to the east of the mountains, and until you enter the State of Connecticut; after which that of <em>Partridge<\/em> prevails.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013J. J. Audubon, <em>Ornithological Biography<\/em>, I (1831), 211 [excerpted].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You are now presented,kind reader, with a species of Grouse, which, in my humble opinion, far surpasses as an article of food every other land bird which we have in the United States, except the Wild Turkey, when in good condition.\u00a0 You must not be surprised that I thus express an opinion contradictory to that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}