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ciliary crest scarlet; a vertical white bar on either side of the 

 base of culmen. Tertials tipped with white, witl\ a more or 

 less distinct white shaft-line. Rump barred with black and 

 gray. Upper taii-coverts grayish white, the middle pair hav- 

 ing a shght orange-brown suffusion. Rectrices black, the 

 lateral ones with a large oval spot, the others with a broad 

 terminal band of orange-brown. Below black, solid on fore 

 breast, broken by broad, quadrate white bars elsewhere. 

 Under tail-coverts white tipped. 



BoNASA UMBELLUS (Linn.). Ruffed Grouse. While storm- 

 bound on the south shore of Cedar Lake, my hunter shot a 

 grouse with a rifle and brought the headless body to camp 

 for food. Upon examining the bird, I found it an adult with 

 the characteristic reddish brown tail of B. umhelhis. As this 

 feature is apparently the crucial specific test in this genus, I 

 am forced to enter it here, although from geographical con- 

 siderations I should regard it as of exceedingly doubtful 

 occurrence in the region under discussion. 



BoNASA UMBELLUS TOG ATA (Linn.). Canadian Ruffed 

 Grouse. Abundant in the woods along the river above Grand 

 Rapids, where the chicks were just attaining their first per- 

 manent plumage. Of the five adult specimens secured, three 

 have the tail feathers clear ashy-gra}-, v/hile two show a rusty 

 wash over the gray. The gray of the back is distinctly 

 marked in only two specimens. Seven 3'^oung chicks killed 

 from the same brood exhibit ever}^ gradation between B. 

 uinhellus and B. umhellus togata in the coloration of tail feath- 

 ers, some being as rusty as any "pheasant" from Iowa, and 

 others being a clear gray. In the youngest specimens there 

 is no sign of the black ruff externally, although by pushing 

 aside the feathers of the shoulders, the underlying black can 

 be seen. The black feathers are at first tipped with rusty, 

 these tips remaining until just before the bird has attained the 

 highest plumage, when the rusty tips disappear, and the black 

 assumes a rich metallic green iridescence. 



Fifteen specimens secured. 



