1922] Swarth: Birds and Mammals of the Stikine Region 205 



tion, including extension of dark areas and restriction of light ones, is 

 evident in the Stikine birds, as in topotypes of flemingi loaned me by 

 the Victoria Memorial Museum, and is sufficiently marked to justify 

 the recognition of flemingi. It is doubtful whether the tail characters 

 are valid. The sharply truncate tail of the male richardsowi is a fea- 

 ture that is not acquired until the second year at least. The young 

 male, the first year, has' the whole tail rounded, and the individual tail 

 feathers are narrow and rounded as compared with the broad, trun- 

 cate feathers of the old bird. Also, richardsoni can hardly be said 

 to lack entirely a terminal band on the tail. An indication, at least, of 

 this marking is always present. 



Dendragapus obscurus sitkensis Swarth. Sitka Grouse 

 On May 21, on the trip up the river from Wrangell, we stopped 

 at the Canadian custom house, just above the Alaska-British Columbia 

 boundary, and while anchored there heard a grouse hooting in the 

 nearby woods. Presumably this was the coast subspecies. The only 

 specimen collected during the summer was an adult female (no. 39737) 

 taken by Dixon at the southern end of Mitkof Island, during a three 

 days' hunt for deer which he made to that point, August 26 to 29. A 

 number more were seen at the same place. (For the use of the name 

 Dendragapus obscurus sitkensis see Swarth, 1921a., p. 59.) 



Canachites canadensis osgoodi Bishop. Alaska Spruce Grouse 

 Canachites canadensis atratus Grinnell. Valdez Spruce Grouse 



From the reports we heard it is to be inferred that the spruce grouse 

 is of general distribution in the region we visited, and in fair abund- 

 ance though locally restricted to suitable surroundings. "We were in- 

 formed that about Telegraph Creek this grouse was usually found in 

 the spruce forests on the hillsides well up above the river valley. "We, 

 ourselves, met with the species at but two points. Late in the evening 

 of July 5, as we were returning to our camp at Glenora, a young spruce 

 grouse flew up into a tree by the road and was taken. It was still 

 partly in the natal down, too young to be supposed to be shifting for 

 itself, but neither the parent nor any other of the brood was seen. 



At Flood Glacier an adult female and one chick were taken on 

 August 4, an adult male on August 7. No others were seen. These 

 birds were collected in dense spruce woods, in the bottom lands be- 

 tween the river and the glacier. The old male was feeding on huckle- 

 berries. 



