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THE CANADIAN GROUSE. 
Telrao Canadensis Linmus. 
PLATE XV.» 
Tetrao Canadensis, Bonaparte's Continuation — Variety, 
North. Zool. ii. pi. Gl. 
The figure of this species is taken from a speci- 
men in the Edinburgh Museum, and from the dis- 
tribution of the colouring, strongly resembles the 
markings of the variety dedicated to Captain Frank- 
lin as distinct. Among several of the lesser grouse, 
there is a certain variety in the tints and distribution 
of the plumage ; and during the breeding season, and 
at the different ages, these become very different in- 
deed. On these accounts, we do not consider that 
sufficiently distinctive marks have yet been assigned 
to the birds which have been designated T. Cana- 
densis and FranMinii. 
The entire length is about seventeen inches. It 
is common in Hudson’s Bay through the whole year. 
It inhabits Canada in winter, and abounds on the 
Rocky Mountains. “ The favourite haunts of the 
spotted or Canada Grouse,” writes Bonaparte, “ are 
pine woods and dark cedar swamps, in winter re- 
sorting to the deep forests of spruce, to feed on the 
tops and leaves of these evergreens, as well as on 
the seeds contained in their cones, and upon juniper 
ben-ies. Hence their flesh, though at all times good, 
* This Plate comes before Plate XIV. which faces p. 127. 
