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CXXIX. CANACHITES. Grant. 1893. Z 
298. Hudsonian Spruce Grouse. 
Cayenne: canadensis (LINN.) GRANT. 1893. 
Labrador, Hudson Bay region and westward to eastern Alaska. 
(A. O. U. Check-list, Eleventh Suppl.) A very rare and uncertain 
straggler from Labrador to Newfoundland. (Reeks.) A common 
resident in Nova Scotia, but will soon be exterminated on account 
of its tameness. (Downs.) A resident in New Brunswick, but 
rather rare in the St. John district. (Chamberlain.) 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; common from Missinabi to Raft river, 
James bay. (Spreadborough.) Breeds sparingly in the northern 
part of the Bruce peninsula of Ontario. (W. Saunders.) Formerly 
common in the central parts of eastern Ontario, but now (1906) it 
is all but extinct. (Rev. C. J. Young.) An abundant resident 
throughout the wooded parts of Labrador, the whole province of 
Quebec, and northern and northwestern Ontario. According to 
Seton it is common at Lake Winnipeg, and extends northwesterly 
in the spruce forests; Preble found it northeasterly from Lake Win- 
nipeg to Oxford lake and Hayes river and it has been recorded from 
_ York Factory, Fort Churchill and the Severn river; indeed its range 
is the spruce forests of the Atlantic coast, and thence across the 
sub-arctic forest to the Yukon. Nelson says it is found on the 
shores of Bering sea where the spruce forest touches the coast. 
298b. Alaska Spruce Grouse. 
Canachites canadensis osgoodt BISHOP. 1900. 
The range of this species is northern British Columbia, Yukon 
district and Alaska. Nelson records the Canada grouse, doubtless 
this variety, from the shores of Bering sea wherever the spruce 
forest touches the coast. First met with by Bishop and Osgood 
in 1899 at Bennett City, B.C.; also seen by them at Lake Marsh, 
Lake Lebarge and Thirty-mile river, Yukon district and reported 
to them from Rampart City and the Kuskokwim river, Alaska. 
Found by Osgood in 1901 to be abundant in all the Cook inlet 
