CANADIAN RUFI ED GROUSE. S? 



inpf of the CR^pfs, all closely resemble those already dc- 

 scrihcd in the article on the Riiflfed Grouse. 



no NASA UMIiEIJMS TOG ATA, 



Geoc^raphual Piatribution. — Northern New Yj)rk, and New 

 I'lixlan'i, and in Northern Idalio, Oregon, and Washinj^ton in 

 tlu' ITnitecl Slates, and throuj^hout the Dominion of Canada, to 

 tlir district of N»^»vr Caledonia, in British Columbia. 



Adult Ma'c. — Upper parts ^^rayer than in the typical style, 

 the 1)r«»\vn markings especially on lower back and rump very 

 cMiispicuoU!'., and the ^ray ovate spots rather broadly surrounded 

 witli black; upper tail featiiers, dark bluish }<ray, mottled and 

 barred with black; under parts hardly distinguishable from the 

 typical RufTed (Irouse, thou^^h perhaps the bars on Hanks are 

 usually darker; tail, mostly ^ray, irre^ul.nrly barred, and mottled 

 with black, the median feathers inclined to a ydhtwish brown, 

 and a subterminal black band; larjjje tufts of feathers on each 

 side of neck, smoke-brown edyjed with metallic j^reen. Measure- 

 nitiits about the same as those of />*. umbtllus. 



Adult l'\'tnaU. — With the excepticm of the neck tufts, which 

 are either wantinj? or very small, there is no difference observa- 

 ble in the plumavje of the female. While the birds found within 

 the limits of distribution jjjiven above may properly be consid- 

 ered as representinj^ a well-marked race of the typical Ruffed 

 Grouse, it is very doubtfid if the ordinary observer would detect 

 anything in their plumage to indicate that they were different 

 from the more southern species, and would probably consider 

 them as all of the same kind. Specimens vary considerably, and 

 it is not alwaj's easy for the expert to recognize the present race; 

 knowledge of the locality from which the bird comes being often 

 essential for a determination of its identity. 





