110 UPLAND GAME BIRDS 



This bird is recognizable by the broad white band across 

 the end of its tail, and its slaty-blue color. From Alaska to 

 California is found a subspecies, very much like the preceding, 

 called the Sooty Grouse. From western Montana to the Coast 

 Range in Oregon and Washington, and northward to Alaska, 

 is found the Franklin Grouse, known very generally as the 

 "Fool Hen," because it trusts too much to man's humanity, 

 and often finds itself a victim of misplaced confidence. This 

 is one of the last American birds to learn that man is a very 

 dangerous animal, and often devoid both of mercy and of 

 appreciation of the beautiful in bird life. 



The Canada Grouse,^ also called the Spruce Grouse and 

 Black "Partridge," is, as its most acceptable name implies, 

 the grouse of Canada and the Northwest. It has the widest 

 range of any American member of the Grouse Family — from 

 the Alaskan Peninsula southeastward to northern Minnesota, 

 Michigan, New York and New England. It inhabits the 

 evergreen forests of that vast region, usually in very small 

 flocks. It does not really migrate, but by reason of seasonal 

 changes which affect its food supply it often shifts from one 

 locality to another. (D. G. Elliot.) 



In many localities it is known as the "Fool Hen" — a name 

 which is applied in various places to several other species. 

 Man is so conscious of his own insensate destructiveness, and 

 so accustomed to seeing all wild creatures fly in terror before 

 his baneful presence, he naturally feels that any bird which 

 trusts its life to his tender mercies, and does not live in con- 

 stant fear of him, must indeed be a feathered fool! For some 



1 Ca-nach'i-tes canadensis can-a'ce. Length, about 14 inches. 



