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390 SPOTTED GROUSE. 
States. But the Rocky Mountains are not the only region of 
the United States territory where the spotted grouse is found. 
We have traced it with certainty as a winter visitant of the 
northern extremity of Maine, Michigan, and even of the State 
of New York, where, though very rare, it is found in the 
counties of Lewis and Jefferson. On the frontiers of Maine 
it is abundant, and has been seen by Professor Holmes, of the 
Gardiner Lyceum, near Lake Umbagog, and others. In these 
countries, the spotted grouse is known by the various names of 
wood partridge, swamp partridge, cedar partridge, and spruce 
partridge. The American settlers of Canada distinguish it 
by the first. In Michigan and New York, it goes generally 
by the second ; in Maine it bears the third, and in other parts 
of New England, New Brunswick, &c., more properly the last. 
We have been informed by General Henry A. 8. Dearborn 
that they are sent from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to 
Boston in a frozen state, as in the north they are known to 
be so kept hanging throughout the winter, and, when wanted 
for use, they need only be taken down, and placed in cold 
water to thaw. General Dearborn, to whom we are much 
indebted for the information which his interest for science has 
induced him voluntarily to furnish, further mentions, that he 
has heard from his father, that during the progress of the 
expedition under Arnold, through the Wilderness to Quebec, 
in 1775, these grouse were occasionally shot between the tide 
waters of Kennebeck river and the sources of the Chaudiere, 
now forming part of the State of Maine. Fine specimens of 
the spotted grouse have been sent to the Lyceum of Natural 
History of New York, from the Sault de Ste. Marie, by Mr 
Schooleraft, whose exertions in availing himself of the oppor- 
tunities which his residence affords him for the advancement 
of every branch of zoology merit the highest praise. He 
informs us that this bird is common from Lake Huron to 
the sources of the Mississippi, being called in the Chippeway 
language, mushcodasee—t.e., partridge of the plains. 
The favourite haunts of the spotted grouse are pine woods 
