Canachites canadensis. Lake Umbagog, Maine. Tetrao canadensis 1888 Habits, call notes, food, quality of flesh etc Sept. 11 My pointer found & pointed a brood of five or six in an open meadow among long grass fully 30 yards from the brush. They rose like quail all at once, with a loud whirr & flew straight & strongly making directly into the woods. One Ruffed Grouse a minute after the others. I shot two flying, in the meadow & three in the woods, the first of the latter my dog roaded & pointed as it sat on a log. The second we discovered low down on a balsam on a dead branch. The third my guide found near the top of a spruce fully 40 ft. above the ground, this last Upton, Maine. Tetrao canadensis 1884 Oct 25 Upon inquiring among the guides regarding the drumming of this Grouse I have the following somewhat conflicting accounts from two men of unspeakable veracity. Benjamin Sargent many years ago heard a peculiar whirring sound in a cedar swamp. Cautiously approaching he discovered two Spruce Grouse, a D & O, the male, from rose and mounted slowly into the air in a spiral course directly around the stem of a large balsam. His wings vibrated with great rapidity producing a continuous "roaring" sound. He encircled the tree about three or four times moving rapidly feet & at length alighted among the branches, after resting a moment he descended to the same way producing the same sound circling the tree as before ascending. Upon reaching the ground where they were sitting he while he spread his tail like a fan and fluttered like a turkey cock. The sound could be heard at least fifty yards. Sargent saw this performance repeated at least twenty times. The first was without branches for the first ten feet. For the last ten the