1924] Swarth: Birds and Mammals of the Skeena River Region 329

Actitis macularia (Linnaeus). Spotted Sandpiper

A few individuals seen at intervals through the summer, on the
shores of the Skeena and Bulkley rivers near Hazelton, and on the
Kispiox River. One specimen (no, 41995) preserved, an immature
male taken on the Kispiox River, August 18.

Dendragapus obscurus flemingi Tavérner. Fleming Grouse

Found in small numbers on the upper slopes of Nine-mile Moun-
tain, mostly just below the upper limit of upright timber, at from 4500
to 5000 feet altitude. During the three weeks we spent at that place
we saw one adult male and eight or ten females. Small young were
encountered several times, never more than three or four to a brood,
and sometimes only one. Several females seen were alone, and appar-
ently without broods. Three females collected (nos. 42000-42002).
Two, taken August 5 and 8, respectively, are Just beginning the annual
molt. These birds are indistinguishable from specimens taken on the
Stikine River, two hundred miles to the northwest (see Swarth, 1922,
p. 203).

Canachites franklini (Douglas). Franklin Grouse

Seen in woods of spruce, fir, and hemlock, near the summit of Nine-
mile Mountain (4000 to 4500 feet altitude), and along the telegraph
line at a point some forty miles north of Hazelton. Eleven specimens
collected (nos. 42003-42013): an adult male, two adult females, and
three chicks from Nine-mile Mountain; an adult female, two immature
males, and two females probably immature, from the second record
station. These specimens bear out Riley’s (1912, p. 55) comments
upon the earlier molt of the adult male, as compared with female and
young. The adult male collected August 2 has nearly completed the
annual molt. Adult females taken August 10 and 11 are still in the
old plumage. The three chicks, taken with the female parent on
August 10, an entire family, are about one-quarter grown, in juvena!
plumage save for remnants of natal down on the throats of two. Two
young males and two apparently young females taken September 12
have nearly completed the molt into first winter plumage; an adult
female taken September 12 is nearly through the annual molt.

The one adult male has a nearly uniformly black tail. There is a
slight whitish tip to the central feathers, and a faintly indicated light-