CANADA GROUSE, SPRUCE PARTRIDGE. 



Canachites canadensis. 

 Canachites canadensis osgoodi. 

 Canachites canadensis canace. 



Two small wood grouse, notable for their extreme 

 simplicity and lack of fear of man, are found in the 

 evergreen country, Canadian life zone, of the east, 

 north and west. Of these the first is the Canada grouse, 

 a small, blackish bird, variously marked below with 

 spots of white and with the tail tipped with rusty red- 

 dish. The male above is black, waved with dark gray, 

 and beneath black; its throat bordered with white, 

 many of the feathers tipped with white ; the sides and 

 the flanks marked by long white streaks. The female 

 is barred with black and rusty, but has the sides and 

 the scapulars or shoulder feathers streaked with white. 

 The tips of the tail feathers are bright rusty. Length, 

 14/^2 inches ; wing about 7 inches and tail 5 inches. It 

 is found in northern New England, New York, Michi- 

 gan, Minnesota and through Canada to Alaska. 



The three forms of the Canada grouse are very 

 closely related, and, from the sportsman's viewpoint, 

 hard to separate. True canadensis is restricted to the 

 northern part of the range eastern flanks of the 

 Rocky Mountains west of Edmonton, Alberta, easterly 

 to Labrador Peninsula, and Alaska from Bristol Bay 



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