Synopsis of Orders and Families. 



bob-white. 



RUFFED GROUSE. 



Family 31. GROUSE, PARTRIDGES, ETC. TETRAONID^E. 



^naracters the same as those of the Order; tarsus naked in Partridges and 

 guails; more or less feathered in Grouse and Ptarmigan. 



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