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Franklin's grouse
[< Sir John Franklin, English explorer, 1786-1847]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a species of grouse, Canachites franklinii, found throughout the West and Northwest.
Quotations
1908
Three eggs of Franklin's grouse and one egg of the Canadian ruffed grouse were found in one nest by an Indian near Lake Babine post. . . .
1963
The bird I shot was . . . slightly different from the spruce grouse of the Saskatchewan woods. I got to know this variety as Franklin's grouse, with the tail darker and narrowly tipped with dingy white rather than buff.