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299. Franklin's Grouse. 



Canachites franklinii {TiovGi..) Grant. 1893. 



Northern Rocky Mountains, from northwestern Montana to 

 the coast ranges of Oregon and Washington, and northward in 

 British America, reaching the Pacific coast of southern Alaska, 

 (Lat. 60° N.^ (A. 0. U. List.) This bird inhabits the valleys of 

 the Rocky Mountains from the sources of the Missouri to those 

 of the Mackenzie. {Richardson.) Throughout the wooded por- 

 tion of the interior of British Columbia, east of and including the 

 Coast Range north to Cassiar. An abundant resident. (Fannin) 



This grouse was quite common along the line of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway, in the Rocky Mountains, in the Bow River Pass 

 and westward, in 1885. It is so tame that it is named the "fool 

 hen," and many are killed with sticks as they sit on the low 

 branches. Reported as common about Jasper House, on the Atha- 

 basca River, in the summer of 1898, by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 



Breeding Notes. — This species seems to nest exactly like the 

 other grouse. One nest found at the base of a tree at Hector, 

 Rocky Mountains, on July 29th, 1885, contained eight eggs. The 

 young were just emerging from the shell and would evidently 

 leave the nest at once, as indeed two of them attempted to 

 do as we stood by them. 



MUSEUM specimens. 



Two specimens ; one taken by Mr. R. G. McConnell in Bow 

 River Pass, June, 1882 ; the other at Revelstoke, B.C., May ist, 

 1890, by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 



CVni. BONASA Stephens. 18 19. 

 'soo. Ruffed Grouse, " Partridge." 



Bonasa umbellus (Linn.) Steph. 1819. 



From all I have observed, I think that we have in Ontario in- 

 dividuals of both Bonasa umbellus and Bonasa umbellus togata, that 

 these two intergrade and produce a mixed race which is found 

 throughout southern Ontario, but cannot properly be classed 

 with either of the varieties. {Mcllwraith.) 



