FOREST AND STREAM 
1149 
ONTARIO STOPS MARKET SHOOTING. 
C ANADA was in advance of the United 
States in prohibiting spring shooting, and 
it is pleasant to note that the Ontario legis¬ 
lature has passed a law which is designed to 
stop the selling of wild ducks, wild geese and 
other water fowl. 
This does not in the least interfere with the 
legitimate sportsman—in fact it adds to his pleas¬ 
ures and opportunities, as it will also to those 
of the gunner on this side of the boundary line, 
for the ravages of the market hunter were begin¬ 
ning to show their effects in lessened number of 
migratory fowl. It is to be hoped, once the con¬ 
stitutionality of the migratory bird law shall 
have been decided by our Supreme Court, that 
the United States and Great Britain, acting for 
Canada, will find it possible, through treaty, to 
make this law international in scope. 
THE RUFFED GROUSE. 
The letter below shows that there is real in 
terest in the grouse question—an interest which 
it is hoped will be sustained in the future.—Ed.] 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Will you kindly answer the following ques¬ 
tions? 
1. I have made the statement that the partridge 
(ruffed grouse) is found in every state in the 
country. 
2. Does it also breed in every state? 
3. This refers to the partridge found in the 
New England states. 
Your reply will be awaited with interest. 
Thanking you in advance, I remain, 
W. G. Payson. 
The ruffed grouse is peculiar to North 
America, and is found mainly in the Transition 
and Canadian life zones. Ornithologists recog¬ 
nize four geographical races in different sections 
of the continent. Of these four forms, the typi¬ 
cal species (Bonasa umbellus) inhabits the east¬ 
ern United States as far north as northern 
Massachusetts, thence westward to and beyond 
the Mississippi River; in southern Vermont, 
southern New York, through Ohio, Michigan, 
Wisconsin and southern Minnesota, touching the 
eastern portions of North and South Dakota, 
eastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas and Missouri, 
northern Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and in 
the Alleghanies to Georgia. The ruffed grouse 
of northern New England, northern New York, 
northern Michigan and eastern Oregon, known 
B. umbellus togata, the Canada ruffed grouse, 
is found also northward to Nova Scotia, Mani¬ 
toba, central Keewatin, southern Ungrava and 
British Columbia. The gray ruffed grouse 
(Bonasa umbellus umbelloides) occurs in the 
central Rocky Mountains, from Colorado, Utah 
and western South Dakota, to Alaska, along the 
Yukon and Mackenzie Rivers, throughout much 
of British North America, east as far as Mani¬ 
toba. Another darker race (Bonasa umbellus 
sabina) inhabits the wooded country of the 
northwest coast region of southern Alaska, to 
Humboldt County, California. 
All these forms are very similar in appearance, 
and it is not unusual to find in one locality a bird 
which, in color, may closely resemble those of 
some far distant locality. The most that can be 
said for these races is that they average lighter 
or darker—as the case may be—than certain 
other relations, the center of whose abundance 
may be far distant. 
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When We Have Game 
/ In Plenty 
(HE day is coming when we shall have 
game in as great plenty in this country as 
we did fifty yearsago—when quail, grouse, 
ducks, wild turkeys, will be a common and appreciated sight on 
the table and in the fields and woods. 
Has it ever occured to you that you can hasten the arrival of 
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not only supply your own table with 
an abundance of good food but also in 
many instances enjoy good sport 
from the birds you raise. 
The more birds raised the better 
hunting there will be. Already, in 
some parts of the country, those 
who own large acreage are being 
paid by sportsmen for the game they 
raise and liberate. 
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