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muter Birds of 
White Mts. 
Presidential Range 
A. P > Chad bourne 
2. Dendragapus canadensis. Canada Grouse. — On July 3, 1886, one 
ran across the carriage road just in front of J. L. Goodale as he was walk- 
ing up from the base of the mountain. Altitude about 3500 feet. No 
others seen. 
Auk, 4, April 1887. p.103 
Breezy Point, Warren, N.H, 
1895. 
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The Spruce Partridge in the White Mountains. — Late in August, 1908, 
on descending the Crawford bridle path on Mount Clinton, just below the 
timber line, I came upon a female Spruce Partridge ( Canachites canadensis 
canace) with a single chick about one third the size of its mother. The 
older bird was very tame. I walked within four feet of her as she stood 
upon a little knoll of moss, while the chick made its way nervously off into 
the forest. She was also strikingly tranquil. Once in a while, with a low, 
guttural note, she would ruffle her plumage for a moment and look at me 
with mild anxiety. But throughout my stay near her she did not move 
ten feet from the spot where I first saw her. 
On July 18, 1909, about a quarter of a mile below the timber line, I 
found a female Spruce Partridge lying in the same path. When I had 
approached within a distance of about twenty feet, she raised herself 
slightly and four young, looking like average domestic chicks on the day 
of their hatching, ran out into the path. To my surprise they soon took 
flight, and with very rapid wing strokes and with dangling legs they quickly 
disappeared amongst the trees. The mother bird was more agitated than 
the one I had seen the year before, but showed none of the excitement so 
familiar in the mother Ruffed Grouse. I repeatedly stroked her back with 
my umbrella, and she seemed absolutely indifferent to this treatment. 
Since the Crawford bridle path is one of the most frequented of the White 
Mountain trails and is travelled every season by hundreds of tourists 
many of whom camp and too many of whom are ruthless destroyers of 
wild life, it is remarkable that the Spruce Partridge retains its racial 
tameness in this region and, indeed, that it survives near the path at all. 
— Nathan Clifford Brown, Portland, Maine. 
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