SPRUCE GROUSE Canachites canadensis 



PAST AND PRESENT DISTRIBUTION 



Range. — Most of Canada and Alaska, south of 

 the tree line and extending southward in Boreal 

 Forest areas of eastern and western I'nited States. 



Habitat. — Boreal or subalpine coniferous forest, 

 particularly of wet, boggy type forested with 

 spruce and larch and thick ground cover of mosses. 



*NoTE.— Franklin's grouse has usually been considered a distinct species, 

 but our specimens show overlap of characters at the junction of its range with 

 that of the spruce grouse. It therefore appears that Franklin's grouse is 

 merely a race of the spruce grouse. 





