FEATHERED GAME OF 
THE NORTHEAST 
THE SPRUCE GROUSE. 
(Canachites canadensis.) 
The Spruce Grouse, Canada Grouse, Swamp 
Partridge, or Black Grouse,—for by all these 
titles this bird is known,—is a dweller on our 
North American continent from Newfoundland 
to the Columbia river, thence northward into 
Alaska, and from the northern portions of the 
United States to the limits of the spruce forests 
of the sub-Arctic lands, thus leaving only north- 
western Montana, Oregon, Washington, and 
northward along the coast through British Co- 
lumbia for its cousin, Franklin’s Grouse. Little 
they care for cold or snow. They seem to be 
resident at all points of their habitat. The 
range of the Spruce Grouse extends much far- 
ther into the north than that of the ruffed 
grouse. It is somewhat smaller than this aristo- 
cratic relative, and in its shape is nearer to the 
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