Show dance of the Sharp grouse odd performance the dance of the sharp tai grouse akes place at daybreak says an authority in the detroit free press the birds both bolh males and females assemble at some favorite place to go through a performance as curious as it is eccentric the males with ruffled feathers spread tails expanded air sacs on the neck heads drawn toward the back and drooping wings strut about in circles not all going the same way but passing and crossing each other at various angles As the dance proceeds the excitement cit ement of the birds increase they leap forward cawi 1 11 the ground wh shut hort ali ihrk kibat ts Ith jahp elfe cief th ty ey produce a hollow J th af through the still jill air ai af ahe he breaking day suddenly gud Pud denly they become quiet and walk about like creatures whose danity jo 13 unquestioned when some in ma ill again becomes possessed and starts off on a rampage and the attack from which he suffers becomes infectious and all the other birds at once give evidence of having taken the disease the grouse i 1 I nt ciuch of a nest builder 0 its fis eggs in a hollow iq ial aroun ground d scantily and lad ariere are from 10 to 13 dark polor cd purplish buff eggs which chichi fade 1 after they ar are laid ahse fi hatch after y ahr thre e weeks into young om covered with yellowish down |