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are indistinguishable from those of the former sub-species. 

 In size they average a trifle larger." 



They have been met with as far north as Fort Simpson, 

 where My. Koss secured both sfeins and eggs. There are but 

 three bird skins and two sets of eggs in the Ottawa Museum ! 



300b. Geay Euffed Geouse — Bonasa umbellus umbelloides 



(Dougl.). 



Chief Trader Bernard E. Eoss states that it is coromon 

 at Fort Simpson and on the Mackenzie Eiver, north to La 

 Pierre's House, west of Fort McPherson, Peel's Eiver. He 

 also claims having secured its eggs in that district over forty 

 years ago. Not observed by us on the Anderson. 



The Ottawa Museum contains three fine bird specimens 

 from Mr. W. Spreadborough, and but one set of six eggs, 

 taken by Professor Macoun at Eevelstoke, B.C., on May 18th, 

 1890! 



300c. Oregon Euffed Geouse- — Bonasa umbellus sdbinei 



(Dougl.). 



.This grouse is a resident and breeds throughout the 

 district of New Caledonia. According to receipt lists sent 

 us from the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, several 

 skins of parents with complete sets of eggs were obtained 

 from that northern section of British Columbia in the 

 autumn of 1889. So far as known to me, this sub-species 

 has not been observed to the eastward of the Eocky Moun- 

 tains. Major Bendire states that " this darkest and hand- 

 somest of the race Bonasa is restricted to the wooded por- 

 tions of the country between the western slopes of the coast 

 range and the Pacific Ocean, as well as the islands adjacent 

 thereto. It is also found at Sitka, Alaska, Western Oregon, 

 and North-western California. Like the preceding, it is 

 a constant resident and breeds wherever found, its general 

 habits differing in no particular from those of its allies. 

 Nidification ib^ins in April and lasts sometimes till late in 



