58o 



T[1F. FRAXKMX CROl'SE. 



ciniianion, s|i(ilU-il ami hlcitclu'il willi rnMisli liruwii ur hiinil unibcr. The spots 

 arc (listril)utf(l civrr miire surface, usually sparingly, more heavily than in D. o. 

 jiiVujlnosHi alllm never hccominy cunllnent. Av. size. 1.68x1.25 (42.7x31.8). 

 Season: c. June 1 ^l : ime hnxid. 



General Ranjte. — .Mountain-- of m irtliwcstern L'niteil States anil western 

 Canada, unrih to about l.atitmle ():i in Alaska. 



Ranjje in Washinf^ton. — I'rohably to he found in all the iiiountainotis dis- 

 trict^, hut more coumion in northern Cascades and mountains of Stevens County. 



Authorities. — | Lewis and Clark. l\\^\. \'.\. (1S14) ]-A. I'.iddle : Cones. \'ol. 

 II. pp. iSi, iSj. I Tctnui fraiikliiiii. l)ou^la>. Cooper and Suckley, Rej). Pac. 



R. R. Surv. XII. ])t. II. i860, p. 221. 

 Specimens. — Trov. C. 



1)'. Sr. IK E( M ). 



THERE seems to l)e a lack 

 of exact information about this 

 liird. and we are not able to 

 add much to the meager fund 

 alreadv at hand. It so closely 

 resembles the Canada Grouse 

 ( Cauacliitcs canadensis)" in ap- 

 ]>earancc, that it is prestimed 

 to resemble it in habit also, and 

 nnich that is said of its beha- 

 \ior must be understood as re- 

 ferring to the lietter-known 

 fm-m. Originally described 

 (but not scientifically named) 

 by Lewis and Clark from speci- 

 mens taken in the mountains of Idaho, the species probably has its center of 

 abundance in the same region today : but it is found northward far into British 



a. Keccntly split up into several forms, the nearest neiglibor being C. c. osgoodi of .Maska. 



I'i;.\l.\I,l-: FR.WKLIX CUOl .-1.. 



Taken in Chelan County. Photo by the Author. 



A CM \KACT1;RISTIC H.MiNT of the FR.XNKLIN GttOUSE. 



