1924] Swarth: Birds and Mammals of the Skeena Rimer Region 329 



Actitis macularia (Linnaeus). Spotted Sandpiper 



A few individuals seen at intervals through the summer, on the 

 shores of the Skeena and Bulkley rivers near Hazelton, and on the 

 Kispiox Eiver. One specimen (no. 41995) preserved, an immature 

 male taken on the Kispiox River, August 18. 



Dendragapus obscurus flemingi Taverner. Fleming Grouse 



Found in small numbers on the xipper slopes of Nine-mile Moun- 

 tain, mostly just below the upper limit of upright timber, at from 4500 

 to 5000 feet altitude. During the three weeks we spent at that place 

 we saw one adult male and eight or ten females. Small young were 

 encountered several times, never more than three or four to a brood, 

 and sometimes only one. Several females seen were alone, and appar- 

 ently without broods. Three females collected fnos. 42000-42002"). 

 Two, taken August 5 and 8, respectively, are just beginning the annual 

 molt. These birds are indistinguishable from specimens taken on the 

 Stikine River, two hundred miles to the northwest (see Swarth, 1922, 

 p. 203). 



Canachites franklini (Douglas). Franklin Grouse 



Seen in woods of spruce, fir, and hemlock, near the summit of Nine- 

 mile Mountain (4000 to 4500 feet altitude), and along the telegraph 

 line at a point some forty miles north of Hazelton. Eleven specimens 

 collected (nos. 42003-42013) : an adult male, two adult females, and 

 three chicks from Nine-mile Mountain ; an adult female, two immature 

 males, and two females probably immature, from the second record 

 station. These specimens bear out Riley's (1912, p. 55) comments 

 upon the earlier molt of the adult male, as compared with female and 

 young. The adult male collected August 2 ha.s nearly completed the 

 annual molt. Adult females taken August 10 and 11 are still in the 

 old plumage. The three chicks, taken with the female parent on 

 August 10, an entire family, are about one-quarter grown, in juvenal 

 plumage save for remnants of natal down on the throats of two. Two 

 j^oung males and two apparently young females taken September 12 

 have nearly completed the molt into first winter plumage; an adult 

 female taken September 12 is nearly through the annual molt. 



The one adult male has a nearly uniformly black tail. There is a 

 slight whitish tip to the central feathers, and a faintly indicated light- 



