OREGO.V OR SABIXE'S GROUSE. 



BO NASA UMfiELLUS SAlUNI. 



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Geographical D/sf r/duti'on.— CoacfX range of mountains from 

 Northern British Columbia to California. 



Adult Male. — Upper parts, mostly dark, rusty chestnut, 

 mingled with black blotches and mottling; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts inclined to gray in some specimens; feathers of wings 

 have a central streak of yellowish white; flanks, rusty, bar'-ed 

 with black; tail, deep rust color, barred irregularly, with black, 

 tipped with Tay, and having a subterminal black band, above 

 which is another bar of gray; under tail-covert:., orange, barred 

 with black and V-shaped white mark at tip; feathers f)f thighs 

 and tarsus, rusty. Total length, about 17^ inches; wings, 7I; 

 tail, b\. 



Adult Female. — Resembles the male. 



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