54 ALLEN^S naturalist's LIBRARY. 



in. THE KAMTSCHATKAN CAPERCAILZIE. TETRAO 

 KAMTSCHATICUS. 



Tetrao kamtschaticus^ Kittl. Reise Kamtschatka, ii. p. 353, 

 woodcut (1858); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. 

 p. 67 (1893). 



Adult Male — Like T. parvirostris, but smaller ; mantle not 

 barred with black ; shoulder-feathers broadly tipped with white, 

 forming a continuous white band down each side of the back. 

 Total length, 30 inches; wing, 14-1 ; tail, ii-o ; tarsus, 27. 



Adult Female. — Mantle strongly barred with black ; breast and 

 belly black, barred with buff and tipped with white ; the white 

 tips of the shoulder-feathers form a conti?mous white hand^ as in 

 the male. Total length, 22 inches ; wing, ii'i ; tail, 6'4 ; tar- 

 sus, 2. 



Range. — This species is only known to occur in Kamts- 

 chatka, where it replaces T. parvirostris. 



THE CANADIAN GROUSE. GENUS CANACHITES. 



Canachites, Stejn. P. U. S. Nat. Mus. viii. p. 409 (1885). 



Type, C. canadensis (Linn.). 



Toes naked and pectinate on the sides ; tail fairly long and 

 rounded, composed of sixteen feathers, the outer pair being 

 not much shorter than the middle pair ; no elongate tufts of 

 feathers on each side of the neck, and the outer flight-feathers 

 not attenuated or sickle-shaped. 



This genus includes only two small North American species 

 of about the size of the Common Partridge of Europe. 



I. THE CANADA GROUSE. CANACHITES CANADENSIS. 



Tetrao canade?isis, Linn. S. N. i. p. 274 (1766); Audub. Orn. 



Biogr. ii. p. 437, pi. clxxvi. (1834); v. p. 563 (1839). 

 Canace canadensis, Reichenb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xxix. (185 1); 



Elliot, Monogr. Tetraon. pi. ix. (1865). 



