20O GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



CVII. CANACHITES Grant. 1893. 

 298. Canada Grouse. 



Canachites canade?isis (Linn.) Grant. 1893. 



A very rare and uncertain straggler from Labrador to Newfound- 

 land. {Reeks.) A common resident in Nova Scotia, but will 

 soon be exterminated on account of its tameness. {Downs ) A 

 resident in New Brunswick, but rather rare in the St. John dis- 

 trict. {Chamberlain.) An abundant resident throughout the 

 wooded parts of Labrador, the whole Province of Quebec, and 

 northern and northwestern Ontario. According to Seton-Thomp- 

 son it is common at Lake Winnipeg, and extends northwesterly in 

 the spruce forests ; indeed its range is the spruce forests of the 

 Atlantic coast, and thence across the Sub-Arctic forest to the 

 mouth of the Yukon. Nelson says it is found on the shores of 

 Behring Sea where the spruce forest touches the coast. Its 

 range includes the whole northern spruce forest from the Pacific 

 to the Atlantic, and seems to be almost co-incident with that of 

 the Canadian Ruffed Grouse. 



Saw a female with young at Richmond Gulf June 30th, 1896. 

 None observed elsewhere in Labrador. Said to be plentiful a 

 short distance up the river from Fort Chimo. {Spreadborough.) 

 Breeds in the northern part of the Bruce Peninsula of Ontario. 

 W. Saunders. 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Three specimens ; one taken near Ottawa by Mr. S. Herring, and 

 one procured at York Factory, Hudson Bay, by Dr. R. Bell, the 

 third at Bracebridge, Ont., by Mr. W. Spreadborough. One set 

 of eggs, taken at the Grand Falls of Hamilton River, Labrador, 

 by Mr. A. P. Low, June ist, 1894. 



298a. Labrador Spruce Grouse. 



Canachites canadensis labradorius Bangs, i 899. 



Rigolette, Hamilton Inlet, Labrador. (/. A. Allen in Auk, Vol. 

 ' XVL 340.) 



