Canachites canadensis. Maine (Lake Umbagog). 1876. June 14. Between the entrance to the Tylor Path and the bog I came upon a fine male Spruce Grouse. He rose from the path with a faint flutter and alighted in a low alder. I watched him for some time and noticed that the red space over the eye was very conspicuous; that he held his tail high with the under covert striking down below it; and that he turned his head very slowly and steadily and slowly as if it were moved by automatic machinery. At length I turned to walk away to fair shooting distance when he immediately took wing, flying directly after me along the path and actually alighting within six feet of my heels. The next moment afterwards, however, he skulked into the bushes and again flew to a low limb where I shot him. 1879. May 24. In the woods immediately behind the house, I discovered a female Spruce Grouse sitting erect near the trunk of a spruce. After a moment she walked deliberately out along the limb and began to feed. Plucking mouthfuls of needles with a quick, nervous motion. Canace canadensis. 1879. Maine (Lake Umbagog). (May 30) Oscar Moss who has often seen this Grouse drum discredited it as follows: The male flies straight upward from the ground to the height of fifteen or twenty feet, and as it descends produces a muffled roll exactly like the closing part of the Ruffed Grouses. The favorite haunts of this Grouse here are said to be larch swamps. 1880. May 19. Alva Coolidge tells me that a nest containing thirteen eggs was found several years since in the open end of a hollow log in the larch bog on Mollidgewalk Stream.