sko PHE FRANKLIN GROUSI 
nat potte ind blotched with reddish brown or burnt umber The spots 
ire distributed over entire surfac usuall paringly, more heavily than in D. o 
altho never becomi onfluent \v. size, 1.08x 1.25 (42.7 x 31.8). 
. lune ist e bh j 
General Range.—\lountai fi northwestern United States and western 
Canada, north to about Latitude 60° 1 \laska 
Range in W ashington,. Probab to b found in all the mountainous dis 
but more common in northern ( ules and mountains of Stevens County 
Authorities. Lewis and Clark, Hist. Ex. (1814) Ed. Biddle: Coues. Vol 
Il. pp. 181, 182 etra I D Cooper and Suckley, | I 
R. R. Surv. NIT. pt. H. 1860, p. 221 2? Rh.D&Sr Dt EC) 
) 
Specimens.—|'roy. ( 
THERE seems to be a lac k 
of exact information about this 
bird, and we are not able to 
add much to the meager fund 
already at hand It so closely 
resembles the Canada Grouse 
Canachites canadensts )* in ap- 
pearance, that it is presumed 
to resemble it in habit also, and 
much that is said of its beha- 
vior must be understood as re- 
ferring to the better-known 
form Originally described 
FEMALE FRANKLIN CROUSI (but not scientifically named 
by Lewis and Clark from speci 
aken 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 
