_Canachites canadensis canace_
The male is a grayish bird with a jet black throat
and breast, the former bordered with white; the
skin above the eye is red. The female is barred
with black and reddish brown with a black mottled
tail tipped with brown. L. 15.
_Range._ Northern parts of United States from New
Brunswick to Manitoba. Other races are found
throughout the wooded parts of Canada and Alaska.
An unsuspicious inhabitant of swampy coniferous forests. Now rare in the
United States. It nests on the ground in June, laying 9-16 eggs, buff,
lightly speckled with brown.