Some scratch about and feed on the ground, where they also nest, like our barnyard poultry.

Others run along the banks of rivers or on the sea-beaches, where they wade in shallow water to pick up their food, like Snipes and Plovers; while others swim with their webbed, feet and take their food from deep water, like Geese and Ducks.

There are a few game birds in this glass case--some Pigeons and Grouse; suppose we finish the morning in their company?
"We will call Pigeons the Birds that Coo; and Grouse are some of the Birds that Scratch, so called because they all have much the same habit as our domestic fowls of scratching the ground for food and to raise a dust in which they take a sort of bath.

See, this Cooer is called the Passenger Pigeon.".