FRANKLIN GROUSE. 
299. Canachites franklini. 16 inches. 
Upper parts dark gray, marked with black bands, and nar¬ 
rower bands of lighter gray; tail feathers black to the tip, 
with the upper tail coverts strongly barred with white; tail 
having sixteen feathers. Like the preceding these birds are 
at home in the dense evergreen forests. It is very similar to 
the eastern bird, the Canada Grouse, and has the same local 
name given it from its unsuspicious nature, of “Fool-hen.” 
Nest. —Is placed on the ground under logs or low branching 
fir trees, and from eight to fifteen eggs are laid. These are 
brownish buff in color, spotted and blotched with rich brown 
(1.75 x 1.30). 
CANADIAN RUFFED GROUSE. 
300a. Bonasa umbelhis togata. 17 inches. 
A darker form of the eastern variety, the under parts being 
more heavily marked with brown. Found in the northern 
United States and southern British Provinces, from Maine and 
Novia Scotia west to Oregon and British Columbia. Eight to 
fourteen eggs of a brownish buff color (1.55x1.15). 
