200 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
CVII. CANACHITES Grant. 1893. 
298. Canada Grouse. 
Canachites canadensis (LINN.) GRANT. 1893. 
A very rare and uncertain straggler from Labrador to Newfound- 
land. (Reeks.) A common resident in Nova Scotia, but will 
soon be exterminated on account of itstameness. (Downs) A 
resident in New Brunswick, but rather rare in the St. John dis- 
trict. (Chamberlain.) An abundant resident throughout the 
wooded parts of Labrador, the whole Province of Quebec, and 
northern and northwestern Ontario. According to Seton-Thomp- 
son it is common at Lake Winnipeg, and extends northwesterly in 
the spruce forests ; indeed its range is the spruce forests of the 
Atlantic coast, and thence across the Sub-Arctic forest to the 
mouth of the Yukon. Nelson says it is found on the shores of 
Behring Sea where the spruce forest touches the coast. Its 
range includes the whole northern spruce forest from the Pacific 
to the Atlantic, and seems to be almost co-incident with that of 
the Canadian Ruffed Grouse. 
Saw a female with young at Richmond Gulf June 30th, 1896. 
None observed elsewhere in Labrador. Said to be plentiful a 
short distance up the river from Fort Chimo. (Sfreadborough. ) 
Breeds in the northern part of the Bruce Peninsula of Ontario. 
W, Saunders. 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Three specimens ; one taken near Ottawa by Mr.S. Herring, and 
one procured at York Factory, Hudson Bay, by Dr. R. Bell, the 
third at Bracebridge, Ont., by Mr. W. Spreadborough. One set 
of eggs, taken at the Grand Falls of Hamilton River, Labrador, 
by Mr. A. P. Low, June Ist, 1894. 
298a. Labrador Spruce Grouse. 
Canachites canadensis labradorius BANGS. 1899. 
Rigolette, Hamilton Inlet, Labrador. (/. A. Allen in Auk, Vol. 
XVI, 340.) 
