FRANKLIN’S GROUSE. 
A TRULY Northern species, like its relative the Can- 
ada Grouse, this bird is found but in few localities 
in the United States, being more an inhabitant of the 
country lying above our border. It ranges from Wash- 
ington and Oregon, through northern Idaho to the Belt 
Range in Montana, and north of our line, in British Co- 
lumbia and the mountains of the Coast Range. In 
most parts of Alaska it seems to be supplanted by the 
Canada Grouse, which reaches the Pacific Coast in that 
Territory; but it is Franklin’s Grouse that is met with 
in the mountains of the Coast Range in British Columbia. 
My experience with this bird has been gained mainly 
in the last-named mountains, where I have met with it 
on various occasions. It inhabits similar localities to 
those frequented by the Spruce Grouse, and is equally 
tame and confiding, hardly taking the trouble to move 
out of the way of man or horse—perhaps mule would be. 
a better term—and seems quite indifferent to the presence 
of intruders in its haunts. As a game bird it affords no 
sport whatever, and an entire flock can be killed before 
it enters the head of any of its members that it would be 
a wise thing to take wing and seek some more healthy 
locality. I have met flocks of this species, perhaps con- 
sisting of eight or ten individuals, dusting themselves in 
the trails crossing the mountains, or scattered about them 
on either side, and could easily have bagged the entire lot 
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