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Definition of Spruce grouse
1. Noun. North American grouse that feeds on evergreen buds and needles.
Generic synonyms: Grouse
Group relationships: Canachites, Genus Canachites
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spruce Grouse
Literary usage of Spruce grouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Feathered Game: A Handbook of the North American Game Birds by Dwight Williams Huntington (1903)
"John Burroughs, describing a trip into Canada, says: " We came upon two or three
broods of spruce-grouse in the road, so tame that one could have knocked ..."
2. Michigan Bird Life: A List of All the Bird Species Known to Occur in the by Walter Bradford Barrows (1912)
"(298c) Synonyms: Spruce Hen, spruce grouse, Canadian spruce grouse, Canada Grouse,
... it is not impossible that the spruce grouse also occurred. ..."
3. Feathered Game of the Northeast by Walter Herbert Rich (1907)
"The spruce grouse, Canada Grouse, Swamp Partridge, or Black Grouse ... The range
of the spruce grouse extends much farther into the north than that of the ..."
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