622 U. 6. p. K. E. EXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT. 



TETKAO CANADENSIS, Linn. 



Sprnce Partridge; Canada Grouse. 



Telrao canadensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 17G6, 274— Forster, Phil. Trans. LXII, 1772, 389 — Gmelin, 1, 1788, 749.— 

 Sabinb, Zool. App. Franklin's E.xped. 683.— Bonap. Syn. 1828, 127 — Ib. Amer. Orn. Ill, 1830 ; 

 pi. xxi, f. 2, Q.— Ib. Am. Phil. Trans. Ill, N. S. 1830, 391.— Rich. F. Bor. Amer. II, 1831, 

 346 ; pi. Ixii, female.— Nottall, Man. I, 1832, 667.— Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 437 : V, 1839, 

 563; pi. 176.— Ib. Syn. 203.— Ib. Birds Amer. V, 1842, 83 ; pi. 294. 



Canace canadensis, Reich. Av. Syst. Nat. 1851, p. x.^iix. Type. — Bonap. Comptes Rendus.XLV, 1857, 428. 



Telrao canace, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 275. 



Black Spotted Heatkcock, Edwards, Glean, pi. cxviii. 



Spotted Grouse, Pennant. 



Sp. Oh. — Tail of sixteen feathers. Feathers above distinctly banded with plumbeous ; beneatli uniform black, with a pectoral 

 band of white, and white on the sides of the belly. Chin and throat above, black. Tail with a broad browni.sh orange terminal 

 band. Length, 16.20 ; wing, 6.70 ; tail, 5.44. 



Ilab. — Spruce forests and swamps of the northern United States to the Arctic seas ; west nearly to Rocky mountains. 



Bill rather slender. Eyebrows with the usual papillae. Tarsi densely feathered, the poste- 

 rior edge hare ; the feathers extending along the sides of the toes for half the ha.sal joint. 

 Pectination on tlie sides of the toes very consjiicuous. Tail as long as the wing from elbow to 

 ends of secondaries ; nearly even ; the lateral feathers slightly graduated, (three quarters of an 

 inch less than the longest ;) the feathers truncate, rounded laterally, and sixteen in number. 

 Middle toe and claw longer than the tarsus ; lateral eq^ual, the claws not reaching the base of 

 middle toe ; the claws long and sharp. 



Prevailing color in the male black ; each feather of the head, neck, and upper parts generally, 

 having its surface waved with plumbeous gray. This is in the form 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 

 mottled 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. The under parts 

 are mostly uniform black, the feathers of the sides 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 upper mandible, usually interrupted 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 ot 

 the throat, the lower feathers of this 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 grayish. The tail feathers 

 are similar, but darker, and the tail is tipped with a band of orange chestnut, nearly half an 

 inch wide, obscured on the central feathers. The under tail coverts are black, broadly barred 

 and tipped with white ; the feathers of the legs mottled brown and whitish ; dirty white behind 

 the tarsi. The bill is black. 



The female is smaller but somewhat similar, the black bars above broader, the inner gray 

 bars of each feather, including the tail, replaced by broader ones of brownish orange. The 

 under parts have the feathers black, barred with the brownish orange, which, on tlie tips of the 

 belly feathers, is pure white. The clear continuous black of the head and breast arc wanting. 

 The scapulars, greater coverts, and sides, arc streaked as in the male. 



