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Genus CANACHITES Stejneger. 



Canachites Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, 1885, 410 [Oct. 3]. 

 Type, by orig. desig., Tetrao canadensis Linnaeus. 



Canachites canadensis canadensis (Linnaeus). Hudsonian Spruce Grouse. 



[298.] 



Tetrao canadensis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 17.58, 159. Based on the 

 Black and Spotted Heath-cock Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, 118. (in 

 Canada = Hudson Bay.) 



Range. — Boreal forest region from the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains 

 west of Edmonton, Alberta, east to the Labrador Peninsula. 



Canachites canadensis cSnace (Linnaeus). Canada Spruce Grouse. [298r.] 



Tetrao Canace Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 275. Based on La 

 Gelinote de Canada, Bonasa canadensis Brisson, Orn., I, 203. (in 

 Canada.) 



Range. — Southern Manitoba, southern Ontario, southern Quebec, New 

 Brunswick, and Nova Scotia south to the northern parts of Minnesota, 

 Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, and New England. Accidental in Mass- 

 achusetts (one instance) . Now largely extinct in the southern part of its range. 



Canachites canadensis osgoodi Bishop. Alaska Spruce Grouse. [2986.] 



Canachites canadensis osgoodi Bishop, Auk, XVII, No. 2, April, 1900, 114. 

 (Lake Marsh, Northwest [Yukon] Territory.) 



Range. — • Mt. McKinley range and the Yukon region of Alaska east to 

 Great Slave and Athabaska lakes. 



Canachites canadensis atratus Grinnell. Valdez Spruce Grouse. [298d.] 



Canachites canadensis atratus Grinnell, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., V, No. 

 12, May 5, 1910, 380. (Cedar Bay, Hawkins Island, Prince William 

 Sound, Alaska.) 



Range. — 'Coast region of southeastern Alaska. 



Canachites franklini (Douglas). Franklin's Grouse. [299.] 



Tetrao Franklinii Douglas, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., XVI, Pt. i, 1829, 

 139 (read Dec. 16, 1828J. (Rocky Mountains, lat 50°- 54° N., near 

 sources of Columbia River; also bases of Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens, and 

 Mt. Baker = Okanagan Landing.) 



Range. — Southeastern Alaska (Prince of Wales, Dall, and Zarembo islands), 

 central British Columbia (except the extreme coastal strip), and southwestern 

 Alberta south to northern Oregon, central Idaho, and western Montana. 



