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Subfamily TETRAONIN^. Grouse, Ptarmigan, etc. 

 Genus CANACHITES Stejneger. 



141. Canachites canadensis canace (LINN.). 

 CANADA GROUSE. SPRUCE PARTRIDGE. 



Dendragapus canadensis (Linn.), A. O. U. Check List, 1895, p. in. 



Distr.: New Brunswick and northern New York and southern 

 Canada, west to northern Minnesota; accidental or casual in northern 

 Wisconsin. 



Adult male: Bare skin above the eye, red (in life) ; upper plumage, 

 gray, barred with black; top of head, gray, mottled with], black; 

 throat, black, mixed with white; feathers on base of bill, black, a nar- 



Canada Grouse (male). 



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row white line extending back of the eye; breast, black; rest of under 

 parts barred with black and white; axillars, slaty gray, the shafts of 

 the feathers and the tips, white; first primary, grayish brown, the rest, 

 grayish brown with outer webs mottled with pale buff; tail, brownish 

 black, tipped with rufous. 



Adult female: Head and upper back, marked with rufous, gray 

 and black; lower back and rump, gray, with narrow black bars on the 



