No. 40.] BIRD NAMES. 141 



light gray, and white ; the white not appearing upon the back 

 proper, scarcely present about the head and neck, and showing 

 most noticeably on the lower parts. 



No. 40. Female. 



Measurements about as follows : length fifteen to sixteen and 

 a quarter inches ; extent twenty-one to twenty-two inches. 



This is not a well-known grouse to our gunners generally, as 

 it is not met with very far south of our northern border. As a 

 game bird it affords but little sport, comparatively, and its flesh, 

 though sometimes good, at other times is disagreeably tinctured 

 with the qualities of spruce buds or similar diet. 



CANADA GROUSE : SPRUCE-GROUSE: SPRUCE PARTRIDGE : 

 CEDAR PARTRIDGE : SWAMP PARTRIDGE: WOOD PARTRIDGE: 

 WOOD GROUSE, (this term, like that of ^' timber-grouse," being 

 sometimes broadly used to indicate grouse which inhabit woods, 

 as opposed to those of the " open " or prairie) : BLACK GROUSE: 

 SPOTTED GROUSE. 



At Eastport, Me., where the name Spruce-partridge is used 

 to designate this bird, the Ruffed - grouse, Xo. 41, is called 

 Birch-partridge, while at Jonesport, same state, the latter bird is 

 Partridge simply* and the present species HEATH-HEN (see No. 

 38). This latter name suggests also that lengthy title applied in 



