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very dark, and not very different; a phase in which there is much dull 

 chestnut or burnt sienna in the upper parts and tail and another in which 

 the tail is wholly dull gray and black and the upper parts are but httle 

 varied with dark chestnut markings. The color and markings of the 

 underparts is not different in the two phases, except that very reddish 

 birds sometimes have the bases of the feathers of the upper chest dull 

 chestnut instead of dusky. 



Remarks. The Canadian Ruffed Grouse, Tetrao togatus of Lin- 

 naeus was based wholly upon Brisson's Lagopus bonalia canadensis 

 of "Canada." The type locality being without doubt, the region 

 between Montreal and Quebec. There are in Mr. Brewster's col- 

 lection two fine adult males from the vicinity of Quebec, which 

 are in every way similar to numbers of skins from Maine, Ver- 

 mont, northern New York, New Hampshire and the higher interior 

 parts of Massachusetts with which I have compared them. 



It is probable that the new form is confined to the almost insular 

 province of Nova Scotia, although I cannot be sure about the bird 

 from the coast of New Brunswick as the specimens I have before 

 me are in worn midsummer plumage, and not comparable with the 

 Nova Scotia specimens, all of which were taken in October. 



