UPLAND SHOOTING 71 



THE CANADA GROUSE. 



Tetrao Canadensis. Linn : Bonaparte : Audubon. Spotted 

 Grouse ; FrankVui's Grouse ; Spruce Partridge. 



" Mule, \b1.2\l. Female, 15i.21. 



" Plentiful from the Northern parts of New York to Labra- 

 dor, as well as from Canada to the Arctic Sea, Columbia River. 

 Partially migratory in winter. 



" Adult Male. 



" Bill short, robust, slightly arched, rather obtuse ; the base 

 covered by feathers ; upper mandible with the dorsal outline 

 convex toward the end — the edges sharp and overhanging — the 

 tip declinate ; lower mandible slightly convex in its dorsal out- 

 line ; the back broad and rounded ; the sides sloping outward ; 

 the tip rather rounded. Nostrils basal, lateral, concealed by the 

 short feathers. Head small ; neck of ordinary length ; body 

 full. Feet short, rather small ; tarsus short, roundish, feathered. 

 Toes scutellate above, broadly margined and pectinate ; the an- 

 terior ones connected by a web at the base ; the hind toe very 

 small, the two lateral about equal, the middle one much longer ; 

 claws short, arched, compressed, rather obtuse. 



" Plumage compact, slightly glossed. Feathers of the head 

 very short. Wings short, broad, much rounded and curved, the 

 third quill longest, the fourth next, the second and fifth nearly 

 equal, the first very short. Tail ample, of ordinary length, 

 rounded, of sixteen broad rotundate truncate* feathers, having a 

 minute mucio. 



" Bill and claws brownish black. Irisf hazle. Fringed mem- 

 brane over the eyes, vermillion. Toes purplish gray. Upper 

 plumage and flanks brownish black, transversely barred with 

 brownish gray ; the tip of each feather with two bars of the lat- 

 ter color ; on the hind parts the bars are larger, and the pale 



* Truncate — Cut off short and abruptly . 

 t Iris— The circle about the pupil of the eye 



