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a chisel. ... I saw them at Labrador until the 11th of August." Again 

 ('42, vol. 5, p. 237) he says: "On the coast of Labrador, and in the 

 Bay of Fundy, it lays its eggs on the bare rock." He also states that 

 he procured a specimen. 



Canachites canadensis (Linn.). 

 Hudsonian Spruce Ghouse; "Spruce Game"; "Spruce Partridge." 



Common permanent resident. 



Low says this species is common throughout the wooded and semi- 

 barren areas and he found eggs on June 1st. Coues. found several 

 broods on July 24th; Stearns says they are common in southern Labra- 

 dor all the year round; Turner describes them as abundant throughout 

 the wooded tracts and says they breed at Fort Chimo. Palmer, who 

 visited the south coast in 1887, says: "We were informed that they 

 were generally very abundant, but that great numbers had been 

 destroyed by the severity of the previous winter." 



Audubon ('35, p. 439) says: "The females of the Canada Grous 

 differ materially in their colour in different latitudes. In Maine, for 

 instance, they are more richly coloured than in Labrador, where I 

 observed that all the individuals procured by me were of a much 

 grayer hue than those shot near Dennisville." 



The subspecific difference indicated by Audubon and previously by 

 Brisson was not formally recognized, however, until 1899 when Bangs 

 described as a new subspecies some birds obtained at Rigolet. Norton 

 ('01) has shown, however, that the Labrador bird is the true cana- 

 densis. 



At Indian Cove, Cape Charles, we saw a pair of this species that 

 had been caught near there and were confined in the upper story of a 

 boat house. 



Bonasa umbellus togata (Linn.). 

 Canadian Ruffed Grouse; "Birch Partridge"; "French Hen." 



Not unqommon permanent resident in southern half. 



Brewster records that this bird was reported from Mingan Harbor 

 and to the northward. Packard says it is rare at Hamilton Inlet and 

 only on the south side; rather common at Paradise River, Sandwich 



