126 AMERICAN GAME BIRD SHOOTING 
to Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound; osgoodi 
to Mount McKinley Range and Yukon region, east 
to Great Slave and Athabaska Lakes; canace to Mani- 
toba, southern Ontarie and New Brunswick, south to 
northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York 
and New England. Another race, atratus, has been de- 
scribed from the coast region of Alaska. 
The Canada grouse is not a familiar bird to the 
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sportsman, and is scarcely ever shot over dogs, but 
the angler and traveler through the wilderness of the 
North often meets it in the depths of the forest. There 
is little to be said about shooting it, but in its life his- 
tory there is much that is worth recording. Most of 
this has already been written down in works on natural 
history, but as many of these are not easily accessible 
to sportsmen, it is well to repeat some of these facts. 
This is one of the most unsuspicious and least fear- 
ful of man of all the grouse. Often it may be killed 
by stones or sticks thrown at it, or a noose of twine 
