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corded as "Anglo-American " in Fauna Boreali-Americana, 1831. 

 Again in the British Provinces, and at Calais and Eastport, Me., 

 BIRCH PARTRIDGE ; and from this to Pennsylvania, PARTRIDGE 

 simply (see No. 42). In the latter state and throughout the bird's 

 southern range (to Georgia and Arkansas), it is the PHEASANT, 

 though in Virginia and the Carolinas we sometimes hear it re- 

 ferred to as the MOUNTAIN PHEASANT. 



In Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, edition 1788, the names 

 " Pheasant " and " Mountain Partridge " are given as belonging 

 to one and the same species, i. e., " Urogallus minor, or a ki. of 

 Lagopus ;" and Bar-train, in Travels through North and South 

 Carolina, etc., 1791, mentions (page 286) " Tetrao urogallus, or 

 mountain cock or grous of Pennsylvania ;" and again (page 290), 

 " Tetrao lagopus, the mountain cock, or grous." These quota- 

 tions indicate, in spite of the confusing Latin, an early applica- 

 tion of the word " mountain " to our mountain - loving Ruffed 

 Grouse. Bartram, while describing an evening in the north- 

 western part of South Carolina, in the edition of his Travels just 

 cited, doubtless refers to the same species, when he speaks (page 

 331) of " the wary MOOR FOWL thundering in the distant echo- 

 ing hills." 



In a Natural History of North Carolina, 1737, John Brickell, 

 M. D. (a quack who stole almost all of his material from Lawson), 

 speaks of our " pheasants " differing from those in Ireland, and 

 being " rather better and finer meat ;" " their flesh," he adds, " is 

 good in hectick fevers, the gall sharpens the sight, and the blood 

 resists poison." 



