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Franklin's grouse [< Sir John Franklin, English explorer, 1786-1847] 
a species of grouse, Canachites franklinii, found throughout the West and Northwest.
See also: fool hen mountain grouse
- 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.
- 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. . . .