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cc. Above decidedly brownish or brownish gray barred with dark. 



d. Pale tips of dorsal feathers suffused with pale olive-brown (coast of 



s. Alaska) Canachites canadensis atratus (p. ISO) 



dd. Pale tips of dorsal feathers clear grayish. 



e. Brownish areas more extensive and brighter in color — ochraceous-buff 

 to ochraceous-salmon (Gaspe, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick). 



Canachites canadensis torridus (p. ISl) 

 ee. Brownish areas less extensive and paler in color — light ochraceous-buff 

 (s. Canada from Manitoba s. to Wisconsin and n. New England). 



Canachites canadensis canace (p. 147) 



CANACHITES FRANKLINII (DoDglas) 



Franklin's Grouse 



Adult male. — Supranarial feathers black posteriorly bordered with 

 white (interrupted medially) ; feathers of forehead, crown, occiput, nape, 

 and interscapulars, dark olive-brown to ashy mummy brown narrowly 

 barred with fuscous-black, the tips becoming slightly paler on the nape 

 and interscapulars, even whitish on a few posterolateral interscapulars, 

 the dark subterminal band becoming much broader on the interscapulars, 

 which are much more blackish than olive-brown; back, lower back, and 

 rump like the interscapulars but with the dark areas narrower, the paler 

 interspaces more numerous; lesser upper wing coverts like the back but 

 paler, the dark areas less intense and, except for the subterminal band, 

 the markings more crescentic and the brown areas mottled with dusky; 

 median and greater upper wing coverts dark olive-brown, indistinctly 

 mottled and submarginally irregularly marked with paler — snuff brown 

 to light olive-brown ; secondaries like the greater upper coverts but with 

 the paler color restricted to the outer margins and the tips of the feathers ; 

 the innermost few pairs with the pale tips extending backward along the 

 shaft in a proximally pointed, distally expanded white wedge-shaped 

 mark; primaries dark olive-brown to fuscous, the outer webs of the 

 second, third, fourth, and fifth pairs (from the outside) largely whitish; 

 short upper tail coverts like the rump but with grayer tips; long upper 

 tail coverts fuscous, laterally mottled and vermiculated with pale olive- 

 brown, and broadly tipped with white, the feathers graduated, increas- 

 ing in length centripetally, so that in the closed tail the white tips 

 form a longitudinal series of white blotches; rectrices deep fuscous, the 

 median pair very narrowly tipped with white, the others either without 

 pale tips or very faintly tipped with snuff brown; chin, upper throat, 

 cheeks, and lower auriculars black, the whole area bounded by a narrow 

 white line beginning below the eyes, forming a circle open only in front 

 of the eyes (and, in many specimens, this is continued to the bill by a 

 narrow white subloreal line) ; sides of neck and lower throat like the 

 nape but the feathers of the midventral hne blacker, and with whitish 

 terminal edges; breast and an area extending dorsally to a point over 



