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of any other birds being taken in Muskoka district. (Spreadborough.) 
Two males taken at Norway House, Lake Winnipeg, June 18th, 
common there in September. Downy young taken at Oxford 
House and old birds at Echimamish. (Preble.) According to 
Bishop Newnham, the sharp-tails arrive at Moose Factory, James 
bay from the northeast. They frequently stay all winter and leave 
inthe spring. At Lake Abitibi they are said to occur pretty regularly 
in October. On Lake Temiskaming they do not seem to occur 
regularly, though the bird is frequently found there in October. 
(J. H. Fleming.) 
Mr. A. P. Low puts its northern limit in Labrador at lat. 57°. It 
has been killed in winter at Great Whale river. Since the building 
of the Canadian Pacific railway this bird has been seen frequently 
on the line between Mattawa, on the Ottawa river, and Fort William, 
west of Lake Superior. It has been supposed to be the prairie species 
working east, but its dark colour shows that it is the northern bird. 
It is extremely probable that in coming years it will be a common 
species in the sparsely settled parts of northern Ontario. 
The northern limit of the range of this grouse is Great Slave 
lake, on the 61st parallel. It abounds on the outskirts of the 
Saskatchewan plains, and is found throughout the wooded districts 
of the Northwest Territories. (Richardson.) This grouse breeds 
in the pine forests on both sides of the Lockhart and Upper Anderson 
rivers, where one or two nests were met with. (Macfarlane.) The 
form occuring at Quesnel, B.C. is apparently the typical northern 
species. (Brooks.) This bird is mentioned by Dall as a not un- 
common species at Fort Yukon and for 200 miles down this river 
to the Ramparts, below which it was not found. (Nelson.) 
BREEDING NotTes.—These birds keep in pairs or small flocks 
and frequent the juniper plains all the year. The buds of these 
shrubs are their principal food in winter, as their berries are in 
summer. They generally remain about the same spot, unless dis- 
turbed; their flights are short. They frequently walk on the ground 
and when raised will fly to the top of an adjacent tree. In June 
they make a nest on the ground with grass and feathers. They lay 
from four to seven white eggs with coloured spots. (Hutchins vide 
Seton.) 
