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cavipestris), being uninclined to adopt civilized habits, has retired 

 to the wilder and more unsettled parts o£ the province, and in 

 one case extending its range eastward into the wooded country 

 of the Rainy River and Algoma Districts of Northwestern 

 Ontario, is regularly recorded now at Lake Tamiscamingue, the 

 head waters o£ the Ottawa River. 



TYMPANUCHUS AMERICANUS. 

 (Pinnated Grouse or New Manitoba Prairie Hen) 



(c) The pinnated grouse (Tympanuchus Americanus), a com- 

 paratively new species, entered the province some fourteen years 

 ago (1881) from Northern Minnesota and Dakota, and following 

 up the grain fields, increases under the very feet of its greatest 



