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HUDSONIAN SPRUCE GROUSE 



298. Canachites canadensis. 15 in. 



Very similar to the next, which is our common spe- 

 cies, but the female is not quite as rusty. Found in 

 Labrador and about Hudson Bay. 



CANADA GROUSE; SPRUCE GROUSE 



298c. C. c. canace. 15 in. 



Male black and grayish; female chiefly rusty, barred 

 with black. The Spruce Grouse is usually found in 

 dense thickets and groves or swamps of evergreen woods. 

 It is one of the least suspicious of birds, and in winter, 

 is sometimes knocked down by sticks in the hands of 

 deer hunters. Their flesh is unfit to eat and conse- 

 quently they are not hunted. 



Notes. A drumming, said to be produced by the 

 wings, when in the air; a clucking by the female. 



Nest. Eggs laid on the ground, usually under low, 

 spreading branches of spruces; bright buff with bold 

 black blotches. ( 1 .70 x 1 .25 ) . 



Range. Northern New England, New York and Min- 

 nesota, northward. 



