136 Mr. Dovucras.on some Species 
tone, not unlike the sound produced by blowing into a large 
reed. Nest on the ground, under the shade of Purshia and | 
Artemisia, or near streams among Phalaris arundinacea, care- 
lessly constructed of dry grass and slender twigs. Eggs 13 to 
17, about the size of those of a common fowl, of a wood-brown 
colour, with irregular chocolate blotches on the thick end. Pe- 
riod of incubation twenty-one to twenty-two days. The young 
leave the nest a few hours after they are hatched. 
In the summer and autumn months these birds are seen in 
small troops, and in winter and spring in flocks of several hun- 
dreds. Plentiful throughout the barren arid plains of the river 
Columbia ; also in the interior of North California. They do 
not exist on the banks of the river Missouri; nor have they been 
seen in any place east of the Rocky Mountains. 
The short notice of this speciesy-by the abdve-quoted distin- 
guished ornithologist, appears to have been taken from a young 
male in indifferent plumage ; it is correctly observed by him to 
represent T. Urogallus in the New Continent. Its vernacular 
name among the Kyüse Indians who reside on the Columbia, is 
Py amis. 
2... T. Urophasianellus. Mas. Griseo-brunnescens, albo ferru- 
gineo nigroque undulatus, nuchá alisque albo maculatis, 
. abdomine albo lateribus brunneo-fasciatis, rectricibus me- 
, diis elongatis. chests — 
Fee: Mari tertio minor, subpallidior, cere nigro €—À 
rectricibus subelongatis. | 
Male. Bill brown. Head, neck and back, brownish-gray, waved 
— with bars of a reddish and darker tinge. Plumage of the 
~ head and neck short and fine ; breast and belly dusky-white 
edged with br ownish-gray, and mixed with darker gray or 
brown spots. Quills 22; webs dusky, with darker shafts ; 
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