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Canadian Spruce Grouse. Canachites canadensis 



canace 



15.00 



Ad. $. — Upper parts barred with black aiicl gray; under parts 

 black, many of the feathers bordered or tipped with white; tail 

 black, tipped with reddish-brown; a line of bare skin above the eye 

 bright red. Ad. 9- — Upper parts barred with black, gray, and 

 pale yellowish-brown; under parts whitish, barred with black. 



Nest, on the ground. Eggs, buffy or pale brownish, spotted 

 with brown. 



The Spruce Partridge, as it is commonly called by the 

 lumberman, to distinguish it from the Birch Partridge or 

 Ruffed Grouse, is a permanent resident of the heavy conif- 

 erous forests of northern New England and New York. 

 It is rarely seen south of the White Mountains, and is no- 

 where in New England at all common. It is found, as its 

 name suggests, in dense swampy growths of spruce and fir. 

 It is remarkably tame, allowing such a near approach that 

 it should be impossible to confuse it with its relative, the 

 Ruffed Grouse, which, except for its ruff, has hardly any of 

 the black shade so characteristic of the Spruce Grouse. 



Bob-white; Quail. Colinus virginianus 

 10.00 



Ad. $. — Line over eye white, bordered above and below with 

 black; top of head reddish-brown, mixed with black; back of neck 

 reddish-brown, mixed with white; back and wings chiefly reddish- 

 brown • tail gray ; throat white ; band across upper breast black ; 

 breast and belly white, barred with black; sides heavily washed 

 with reddish-brown. Ad. £. — Similar, but throat and line over 

 eye buff; little or no black on the breast. 



Nest, on the ground, in meadows or grain-fields. Eggs, white 

 usually more or less stained with light brown. 



The Quail is a permanent resident of the Transition 

 Zone, common in southern New England and the lower 

 Hudson Valley, but rare or absent from the upland of west- 



