156 The Grouse Family 



FRANKLINS GROUSE 

 (C. franklini) 



The distinguishing marks of this species are 

 the broad, white bars at the end of the upper tail- 

 coverts. It is also a trifle larger than C. canaden- 

 sis, which it otherwise closely resembles. Its 

 range includes the Rocky Mountains from north- 

 western Montana, through Oregon and Washing- 

 ton and the Coast Range of British Columbia to 

 Alaska. It prefers high elevations, usually be- 

 tween five and ten thousand feet. In disposition 

 it is even more fearless and confiding than its 

 relative of the East. As an object of the sports- 

 man's interest, it is absolutely without merit. 



THE PRAIRIE-HEN 

 (Tympanuchtts americanus) 



Adult male — Upper parts, brown, barred with black and buff; wing- 

 feathers tipped with buff; a tuft of stiff, elongated feathers, 

 capable of being elevated over the head on either side of the 

 neck, black, with buff centres, frequently chestnut on inner 

 webs ; chin, throat, and cheeks, buff, the latter marked with 

 dark brown spots ; a brown line from mouth, beneath the eye, 

 to ear-coverts ; buff stripe from maxilla to and beyond the eye ; 

 under parts, white, barred with brown ; flanks, barred with dark 

 brown and buff; under tail-coverts, white, margined with brown 

 and buff; tail, brown, tipped with white; large sacs of loose 

 skin beneath the long neck-feathers. Total length, about 18 

 inches ; wing, 9 ; tail, 4J. The female is like the male, but a 

 trifle smaller, and the neck-tufts are very short. She has no 

 sacs on the neck. The downy young are light buff, with darker 



