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Spruces. It showed the fearlessness usual with birds of this 

 species, although it rose at length from the ground to a spruce 

 bough. There it remained in full view and allowed m}- com- 

 panion to touch it with a four-foot stick. On October 5 in the 

 same localitj' a female bird was seen, which we approached as 

 near as ten feet, and she showed no fear. On June 10, 1904, a 

 male bird was met beside the path on Israel's ridge of Mt. 

 Adams, a half mile below the " Perch Camp ; " and on July 14 

 Mr. G. B. Wellman at this same point saw a hen and four 

 chicks half-grown. He states that he thinks there may have 

 been more chicks in the brood, but that he counted four. On 

 June 16, 1905, a male bird was again seen in- this same localit}^ 

 so precisely where the 1904 bird had been seen that when we 

 reached the point on the path and my assistant said, " Here is 

 the tree which I marked as the place of the Spruce Partridge," 

 I returned answer, "And there is the partridge; " for at once 

 my eye caught sight of the bird perhaps thirt}' feet awaj'. I 

 have seen the species on these two ridges of Mt. Adams onlj^ 

 In each instance the elevation was 4000 feet or more. 



Mr. Wellman writes me that he saw a Spruce Partridge on 

 the Osgood trail on Mt. Madison in 1908, and one in the 

 Great Gulf in 1909. Mr. Spaulding informs me that he saw in 

 the Jefferson Notch on June 26, 19 10, a Spruce Partridge with 

 one chick. The bird, with her young was in the road at the 

 highest point of the pass, 3000 feet elevation. Mrs. Bridge 

 writes me that she observed one on the same road on Septem- 

 ber 12 of that j^ear. 



Mr. Hugh Brady, who occupied a camp on Nowell's Ridge 

 of Mt. Adams in the summers of 1909 and 1910, stated to me 

 that in the former year he saw repeatedly in August three dif- 

 ferent broods of Spruce Partridges beside a trail to his camp. 

 He described the old birds as very tame and said that neither 

 brood appeared to have more than four or five chicks. In 1910 

 he had seen none at all. 



46. Bonasa umbellus togata. Canada Ruffed Grouse. 



A common resident throughout all the wooded country and 



as high as the scrub growth extends on the Presidential Range, 



