FEATHERED GAME OF 

 THE NORTHEAST 



THE SPRUCE GROUSE. 



(Canachites canadensis.) 



The Spruce Grouse, Canada Grouse, Swamp 

 Partridge, or Black Grouse, — for by all these 

 titles this bird is known, — is a dweller on our 

 North American continent from Newfoundland 

 to the Columbia river, thence northward into 

 Alaska, and from the northern portions of the 

 United States to the limits of the spruce forests 

 of the sub- Arctic lands, thus leaving only north- 

 western Montana, Oregon, Washington, and 

 northward along the coast through British Co- 

 lumbia for its cousin, Franklin's Grouse. Little 

 they care for cold or snow. They seem to be 

 resident at all points of their habitat. The 

 range of the Spruce Grouse extends much far- 

 ther into the north than that of the ruffed 

 grouse. It is somewhat smaller than this aristo- 

 cratic relative, and in its shape is nearer to the 



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