CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 217 
Several heard booming about Cumshewa inlet, Queen Charlotte 
islands, B.C., early in June, 1899. A pair of adult birds was taken 
at an altitude of about 3,000 feet in the mountains at the head of 
Cumshewa inlet, June 23rd. (Osgood.) We were told that grouse 
were common on the heights above Skagway, Alaska, but although 
we often found droppings we saw no birds. (Brshop.) 
297b. Richardson Grouse. 
Dendragapus obscurus richardsoni (DOUGL.) RipGw. 1885. 
This large grouse inhabits the Rocky mountains up to lat. 64°. 
(Richardson.) North to Fort Halkett on the Mackenzie river; only 
in the mountains. (Ross.) Seen along. the trail from Jasper 
House, Rocky mountains, to Camp river, B.C.; also at timber line 
on the mountains in the summer of 1898; common on the hiils 
around Midway, B.C., not so plentiful at Sidley; a few seen on the 
hills at Osoyoos lake; common between the Columbia river and 
Cascade, B.C. (Spreadborough.) East of the Coast range, includ- 
ing the Rocky mountain districts. An abundant resident. (Fan- 
nin.) This species was found to be a common resident of the 
interior, and takes the place of the sooty grouse. (Streator.) Com- 
mon in the partially wooded country in Lac la Hache valley, Chil- 
cotin, and at Soda creek, and again on the summits of the moun- 
tains of the Cariboo range, B.C., but not in the intervening heavily 
wooded country. All secured showed faint traces of a terminal 
bar. (Brooks.) 
This species is general throughout the mountains from the east 
side of the Coast range to the eastern foothills of the Rocky moun- 
tains in Alberta. It is found in company with Franklin grouse at 
from four to seven thousand feet altitude, and in British Columbia 
even lower. 
BREEDING NOTES.—One nest of this species was taken on the 
slope of the mountain near Revelstoke, B.C. It was placed on the 
ground close to a partly rotten log, and the nest was made chiefly 
of dead wood. There were six eggs perfectly fresh on May 22nd, 
1890, when the nest was discovered, and from the constant calling 
and drumming both this and the gray ruffed grouse must have been 
puite plentiful. 
