Birds of the Adirondack Region. 
G. H.Merriam. 
136. Canace canadensis ( Linn .) Bonaparte. Canada Grouse; 
Spruce Partridge. — Resident, and tolerably common in certain locali- 
ties. 
Bull. N. 0.0, e.Oct. 1881, P.233 
Some Birds of Lewis Go, N,T, 
O. Hart Merriam _____ 
A. en » /uia. ^ ^ e-. r « ^ tV 
Tetrao canadensis , ; 
Bull. N. 0.0. 3, April, 1878. p. 53 
Tlfe Canada Grouse. 
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From the Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, January, 1888 . 
THE CANADA GROUSE, Dendragapus (Elliot) catiadensis, 
(Linn). SOME REMARKS AS TO ITS SCARCITY, 
FEARLESSNESS, ITS HABITAT, AND ITS FEEDING 
ON THE TAMARACK, Larix Americana, Michx. 
Read November x, 1887. 
By Wm. Hubbell Fisher. 
The home of the Canada Grouse, familiarly known as the 
Spruce Partridge, is the forests and swamps of the northern portion 
of this Continent. The territory it inhabits includes the northern 
portions of the United States from the coast of Maine as far west as 
the Rocky Mountains — and in British America as far north as 
Alaska. In northern New York, one may travel many a long day 
without meeting with a single specimen. The universal verdict of 
all the guides and hunters whom I have met is to the effect that it 
is a very rare bird. 
You will doubtless see a hundred specimens of the ruffed 
grouse before you will meet with a single Canada grouse. Baird 
states that it inhabits spruce forests'and swamps. I was at Dunbar’s 
Hotel, in the Adirondack region, on Stillwater, at the junction of 
Beaver River and Twitchell Creek, in Lewis County, New York, 
on the 31st of Aug., 1887. The day was declining when we heard 
several shots, which were supposed by Dunbar’s folks to be a 
signal to send a boat over after a party coming out from Smith’s 
Lake, or Muncie’s. Not long after the party appeared, and among 
them was a Mr. C. N. Chapman, of Marathon, New York. He 
had shot a Canada grouse with his revolver. He stated that when 
first seen the bird was on a limb above him, that he shot and brought 
it to the ground. He did not tell me that he shot it after it fell to 
the ground, but from the bullet hole I found in the back of the 
bird, I am of the opinion that he gave it its death stroke after it 
had come to the earth. He stated that the bird did not appear to 
be wild or exhibit fear. 
Before leaving Dunbar’s, I took a boat and rowed over to 
where this partridge was shot. The overflow caused by the erec- 
tion of the State dam on the Beaver River environed two sides of 
this tract. The locality was damp, gloomy, and wild ; gnarled 
trunks and dead branches on the ground ; bare dying trees, some 
deciduous hardwood trees in leaf, and some evergreens, made up 
