108 GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 
both by Indians and whites, and large numbers are ob- 
tained by hitting them with sticks and stones, at throw- 
ing which the Indians are very expert. The nest of 
this species resembles that of the Canada Grouse, merely 
a shallow depression in the ground or moss, lined with 
leaves or grass, and the eggs resemble exactly those of 
its relative, but are slightly smaller. A single brood is 
raised in a season, and nesting commences the latter part 
of May or beginning of June. This species and the 
preceding one are very much alike in the general color 
of their plumage, but Franklin’s Grouse can always be 
recognized by the broad white bars at the end of the 
upper tail-coverts, and the tail itself is without the white 
edging, and more inclined to a square shape or one only 
slightly rounded. In size the two forms are about equal. 
CA NACHITES FRA NKLINI. 
Geographical Distrtbution.—Rocky Mountains from North- 
west Montana, through Oregon and Washington, and the coast 
range of British Columbia to Alaska. 
Adult Male.—Upper parts, similar to the Spruce Grouse, but 
with the upper back, scapulars, and wings of a brown hue, the bars 
and mottling being of that color; no white central streaks on the 
wings, but some of the tertials tipped with white; upper tail- 
coverts very broadly tipped with white, and this is a conspicuous 
character of this species; the entire under parts are like those of 
its Eastern relative, but the white beneath and on the sides of 
the throat is narrower and much less prominent; tail, almost 
square, and of a uniform sooty brown, nearly black on the apical 
half; bill, black. Total length, about 154 inches; wing, 74; 
tail, 5. 
Adult Female.—Upper parts, gray, barred with black and 
ochraceous, narrowest on head and neck, broadest and most con- 
spicuous on upper part of back; upper tail-coverts ochraceous, 
mottled with black and tipped with white; innermost second- 
aries with a central line and tip, white; primaries, dark brown; 
