SPRUCE GROUSE. 



Tetrao Canadensis. 



PLACER AND NEVADA COUNTIES. 



Roseville Junction is eighteen miles from Sacramento by rail on the 

 line of Southern Pacific, looking toward the summit of the Sierra Nevada. 

 At any point beyond this for eighty miles and until Cisco is reached, good 

 sport can be had with grouse, quail, doves, pigeons, larks and- squirrels. 

 The country is romantic and very inspiring, full of legends of '49 and 

 pioneer achievements. Much of it is battle-scarred in record of old-time 

 mining struggles, in which the river and the mountain alike ha^ to sur- 

 render their hoarded gold. It is for game, well covered by protecting 

 undergrowth and sparingly timbefed with oak, pine and the usual small 

 arboreal features of the foothills. 



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