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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 Bartram, 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." 



