TETRAONIDiE — THE GROUSE — TETRAO. 529 



Tetrao Franklinii, Douglas. 

 FKANKLIN'S GROUSE. 



Telmo Frnnllimi, Douglas, Trans. Linn. .Soc. XVI. 1829, 139. — Rich. F. Bor. Anicr. II. 



1831, 348; pi. Ixi. — Gray, Cat. G;illin;v, 80. — Baird, Birds N. Amer. 1858,623.— 



CoorER lunl SucKLEV, N. H. Wash. Terr. 220. — Cuiiuce /■VhiiW/hk', Elliot, Pr. A. 



N. Sc. 1864, 23. Ib. Mon. Tctraoiiiila-, plate. 

 Tetrao Canadensis, var. Bonaparte, Am. Orn. III. 1830, 4" ; pi. x.x. 

 ? 7'e((ao/«sca, Ord, Guthrie's Geog. 2cl Am. ed. II. 1815, 317. Based on " Snuill brown 



pheasant " of Lewis and Chirk, II. 182, wliieh very probably is lliis speeics. 



Sp. Cii.^u. Prevailing color in the male black ; each leather of the hcail, neck, and 

 ii]iper parts generally, ha\ ing its surface waved with plumbeous gray. This is in the iurin 

 of two or three well-defined concentric bars parallel to each other, one along the exterior 

 edge of the feather, the others behind it. The sides of the body, the scapulars, and outer 

 surface of the wings are mottleil like the back, but more irregularly, and with a browner 

 shade of gray, the feathers with a central white streak expanding towards the tip (on the 

 ■wing these streaks seen only on some of the greater coverts). There is no white above, 

 except as described. Tlie under jiarts are mostly uniform black, the feathers of the sides 



Male. 



of the belly and breast broadly tipped with white, which sometimes forms a pectoral band. 

 There is a white bar across the feathers at the base of the up]ier mandiljle, usually inter- 

 rniitcd above ; a white spot on the lower eyelid, and a white line beginning on the cheeks 

 and running into a series of white spots in the feathers of the throat, the lower feathers of 

 which are banded terminally with whitish. The feathers at the base of the bill, and the 

 head below the eyes and beneath, are pure black. The quills are dark brown, without 

 any spots or bands, the outer edges only mottled with gi-ayish. The tail feathers are sim- 

 ilar, but darker, and the tail is entirely black to the tip. Uj^jier tail covert broadly 

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