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340 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN
298. CANADA GROUSE— Ganachites canadensis ( L i n n . ) ..
T h i s grouse breeds at E o r t Providence, where a male and
female thereof were shot. The former was forwarded to
M r . Dalgleish, and the latter to D r . B e l l , i n tbe summer of
1886. E a r l y i n June, 1891, a set of five identified eggs was
obtained at, and sent from, Cumberland House to Washington.
Common i n the forest country at and north of E o rt
Good Hope, Mackenzie R i v e r , where they no doubt breed,
as well as i n N e w Caledonia district, B r i t i s h Columbia. In
the beginning of the sixties of the last century, Chief Trader
B . R . Ross, who found the species abundant at F o r t Simpson,
procured some eggs thereof, which are now, according
to Major Bendire, i n the U . S. N a t i o n a l Museum. They
were taken as e a r l y as 23rd M a y . The number of eggs to
a set varies f r om nine to thirteen, rarely more, u s u a l l y about
eleven, and i n exceptional cases as many as sixteen. An
egg is deposited every other day, and incubation does not
begin t i l l the clutch is completed. In the D o m i n i o n N a tional
M u s e um collection there are three specimens and but
one set of eggs, taken i n Labrador by M r . A . P . Low, J u ne
1st, 1894!
299. FR A N K L I N ' S GROUSE— Ganachites franklinii
( Douglas).
I n his " L i f e Histories of N o r t h American B i r d s , " the
late Major Bendire states: " A m o n g an extremely interesting
collection of birds' nests and eggs made by M r . R .
M a e F a r l a n e , Chief Factor, Hudson's B a y Company, near
Stuart's Lake, B . C . , d u r i n g the season of 1889, and throwi
n g much light on the d i s t r i b u t i o n of a number of species
found i n this l i t t l e known and p r a c t i c a l l y unexplored terri-"
tory, are two incomplete sets of eggs of this b i r d . Three eggs
of F r a n k l i n ' s grouse and one egg of the Canadian ruffed
grouse were found i n one nest by an I n d i a n near Lake
Babine post, i n the latter part of M a y , 1889, and a second
nest, also containing three eggs, was brought to M r . Mac-
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| OCR | 340 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN 298. CANADA GROUSE— Ganachites canadensis ( L i n n . ) .. T h i s grouse breeds at E o r t Providence, where a male and female thereof were shot. The former was forwarded to M r . Dalgleish, and the latter to D r . B e l l , i n tbe summer of 1886. E a r l y i n June, 1891, a set of five identified eggs was obtained at, and sent from, Cumberland House to Washington. Common i n the forest country at and north of E o rt Good Hope, Mackenzie R i v e r , where they no doubt breed, as well as i n N e w Caledonia district, B r i t i s h Columbia. In the beginning of the sixties of the last century, Chief Trader B . R . Ross, who found the species abundant at F o r t Simpson, procured some eggs thereof, which are now, according to Major Bendire, i n the U . S. N a t i o n a l Museum. They were taken as e a r l y as 23rd M a y . The number of eggs to a set varies f r om nine to thirteen, rarely more, u s u a l l y about eleven, and i n exceptional cases as many as sixteen. An egg is deposited every other day, and incubation does not begin t i l l the clutch is completed. In the D o m i n i o n N a tional M u s e um collection there are three specimens and but one set of eggs, taken i n Labrador by M r . A . P . Low, J u ne 1st, 1894! 299. FR A N K L I N ' S GROUSE— Ganachites franklinii ( Douglas). I n his " L i f e Histories of N o r t h American B i r d s , " the late Major Bendire states: " A m o n g an extremely interesting collection of birds' nests and eggs made by M r . R . M a e F a r l a n e , Chief Factor, Hudson's B a y Company, near Stuart's Lake, B . C . , d u r i n g the season of 1889, and throwi n g much light on the d i s t r i b u t i o n of a number of species found i n this l i t t l e known and p r a c t i c a l l y unexplored terri-" tory, are two incomplete sets of eggs of this b i r d . Three eggs of F r a n k l i n ' s grouse and one egg of the Canadian ruffed grouse were found i n one nest by an I n d i a n near Lake Babine post, i n the latter part of M a y , 1889, and a second nest, also containing three eggs, was brought to M r . Mac- |
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