. American game-bird shooting . t has the sides andthe scapulars or shoulder feathers streaked with tips of the tail feathers are bright rusty. Length,14^ inches; wing about 7 inches and tail 5 inches. Itis found in northern New England, New York, Michi-gan, Minnesota and through Canada to Alaska. The three forms of the Canada grouse are veryclosely related, and, from the sportsmans viewpoint,hard to separate. True canadensis is restricted to thenorthern part of the range—eastern flanks of theRocky Mountains west of Edmonton, Alberta, easterlyto Labrador Peninsula, and Alaska from Br
. American game-bird shooting . t has the sides andthe scapulars or shoulder feathers streaked with tips of the tail feathers are bright rusty. Length,14^ inches; wing about 7 inches and tail 5 inches. Itis found in northern New England, New York, Michi-gan, Minnesota and through Canada to Alaska. The three forms of the Canada grouse are veryclosely related, and, from the sportsmans viewpoint,hard to separate. True canadensis is restricted to thenorthern part of the range—eastern flanks of theRocky Mountains west of Edmonton, Alberta, easterlyto Labrador Peninsula, and Alaska from Bristol Bay 125 126 AMERICAN GAME BIRD SHOOTING to Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound; osgoodito Mount McKinley Range and Yukon region, eastto Great Slave and Athabaska Lakes; canace to Mani-toba, southern Ontario and New Brunswick, south tonorthern Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New Yorkand New England. Another race, atratus, has been de-scribed from the coast region of Alaska. The Canada grouse is not a familiar bird to the. TAIL OF CANADA GROUSE sportsman, and is scarcely ever shot over dogs, butthe angler and traveler through the wilderness of theNorth often meets it in the depths of the forest. Thereis little to be said about shooting it, but in its life his-tory there is much that is worth recording. Most ofthis has already been written down in works on naturalhistory, but as many of these are not easily accessibleto sportsmen, it is well to repeat some of these facts. This is one of the most unsuspicious and least fear-ful of man of all the grouse. Often it may be killedby stones or sticks thrown at it, or a noose of twine CANADA GROUSE, SPRUCE PARTRIDGE \2J tied to the end of a stick may be passed over its headas it sits on a limb, and it may thus be dragged fromits perch. A bird of such confiding disposition wouldnot afford much sport, and besides this the deep forestswhich this species inhabits are far from the usualhaunts of the gunner. The range of the Canada grou
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