2l8 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



CXXIX. CANACHITES. Grant. 1893. 

 298. Hudsonian Spruce Grouse. 



Canachites canadensis (Linn.) Grant. 1893. 



Labrador, Hudson Bay region and westward to eastern Alaska. 

 {A. O. U. Check-list, Eleventh Suppl.) A very rare and uncertain 

 straggler from Labrador to Newfoundland. (Reeks.) A common 

 resident in Nova Scotia, but will soon be exterminated on account 

 of its tameness. (Downs.) A resident in New Brunswick, but 

 rather rare in the St. John district. (Chamberlain.) Saw a female 

 with young at Richmond gulf, June 30th, 1896. None observed 

 elsewhere in Labrador. Said to be plentiful a short distance up 

 the river from Fort Chimo; common from Missinabi to Raft river, 

 James bay. (Spreadborough.) Breeds sparingly in the northern 

 part of the Bruce peninsula of Ontario. (W. Saunders.) Formerly 

 common in the central parts of eastern Ontario, but now (1906) it 

 is all but extinct. (Rev. C. J. Young.) An abundant resident 

 throughout the wooded parts of Labrador, the whole province of 

 Quebec, and northern and northwestern Ontario. According to 

 Seton it is common at Lake Winnipeg, and extends northwesterly 

 in the spruce forests ; Preble found it northeasterly from Lake Win- 

 nipeg to Oxford lake and Hayes river and it has been recorded from 

 York Factory, Fort Churchill and the Severn river; indeed its range 

 is the spruce forests of the Atlantic coast, and thence across the 

 sub-arctic forest to the Yukon. Nelson says it is found on the 

 shores of Bering sea where the spruce forest touches the coast. 



2986. Alaska Spruce Grouse. 



Canachites canadensis osgoodi Bishop. 1900. 



The range of this species is northern British Columbia, Yukon 

 district and Alaska. Nelson records the Canada grouse, doubtless 

 this variety, from the shores of Bering sea wherever the spruce 

 forest touches the coast. First met with by Bishop and Osgood 

 in 1899 at Bennett City, B.C.; also seen by them at Lake Marsh, 

 Lake Lebarge and Thirty-mile river, Yukon district and reported 

 to them from Rampart City and the Kuskokwim river, Alaska. 

 Found by Osgood in 1901 to be abundant in all the Cook inlet 



