Jax., 1909. Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin — ^Cory. 



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Subfamily TETRAONINiE. Grouse, Ptarmigan, etc. 



Genus CANACHITES Stejneger. 



141. Canachites canadensis canace (Linn.). 

 Canada Grouse. Spruce Partridge. 



Dendragapus canadensis (Linn.), A. O. U. Check List, 1895, P- m- 

 Distr.: New Brunswick and northern New York and southern 



Canada, west to northern Minnesota; accidental or casual in northern 



Wisconsin. 



Adult male: Bare skin above the eye, red (in life) ; upper plumage, 



gray, barred with black; top of head, gray, mottled with^black; 



throat, black, mixed with white; feathers on base of bill, black, a nar- 



Canada Grouse (male). 



row white line extending back of the eye; breast, black; rest of under 

 parts barred with black and white; axillars, slaty gray, the shafts of 

 the feathers and the tips, white; first primary, grayish brown, the rest, 

 grayish brown with outer webs mottled with pale buff; tail, brownish 

 black, tipped with rufous. 



Adult female: Head and upper back, marked with rufous, gray 

 and black; lower back and rump, gray, with narrow black bars on the 



