Now _Scolopax_ is a snipe.

He probably meant ruffed grouse, and should have called it _Tetrao Umbellus_.

He speaks of a partridge when he means quail, or more properly Bob White, there being no quails on this side the Atlantic----" "Why do people call them quails then ?" asked Bert.
"The name was given to them by our forefathers, because they resembled the European quail.

There is no pheasant in America either; but our grouse looked like one, and so they gave it that name, Lester calls a quail _Pious Imperialis_.

Now that's an imperial woodpecker--that big black fellow with a red topknot that we sometimes see when we are hunting.