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to Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound; osgoodi 

 to Mount McKinley Range and Yukon region, east 

 to Great Slave and Athabaska Lakes ; canace to Mani- 

 toba, southern Ontario and New Brunswick, south to 

 northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York 

 and New England, Another race, atratus, has been de- 

 scribed from the coast region of Alaska. 



The Canada grouse is not a familiar bird to the 



TAIL OF CANADA GROUSE 



sportsman, and is scarcely ever shot over dogs, but 

 the angler and traveler through the wilderness of the 

 North often meets it in the depths of the forest. There 

 is little to be said about shooting it, but in its life his- 

 tory there is much that is worth recording. Most of 

 this has already been written down in works on natural 

 history, but as many of these are not easily accessible 

 to sportsmen, it is well to repeat some of these facts. 



This is one of the most unsuspicious and least fear- 

 ful of man of all the grouse. Often it may be killed 

 by stones or sticks thrown at it, or a noose of twine 



