3o5 SHARP-TAILED GROUS. 



Si. Sharp. Long-tailed Grous, EJiv. ii8. — Ph.Tr.Xxn. 



TAILED. Tetrao Phafianellus, i/a. 5)//. 273. — Latham. 



Le Coq de Bruyeres a longue queue, de la Baye dt.e Hud/on, Briffon, Afp. g,—De 

 Buffin, ii. 286.' 



(~1R. With the head, cheeks, and hind part of the neck, varied 

 with reddifli brown and black : the back and coverts of the 

 tail of the fame color : the fcapulars and great coverts of the 

 ■wings ferrugi«nous, fpotted with black, and great fpots of white : 

 primaries black, fpotted with white : breaft and fides white, ele- 

 gantly marked with fagittal fpots of black : belly white : tail fhort 

 and cuneiform ; the two middle feathers two inches longer than the 

 others : the tail is of the fame color with the back, only the ex- 

 terior feathers are fpotted with white ; the legs are covered with 

 foft and long feathers, extending over the peftinated toes, which 

 would be otherwife naked. 



SwE. The Length of this fpecies is feventeen inches : the Extent of 



wings twenty-four : Weight two pounds. 



PtACE. Inhabits Hudfon's Bay, and, according to Dr. Mitchel, the unfre- 



quented parts of Virginia ; but none have been brought over to 

 England from any other place than the Bay. 



Linnaus confounds this with the Wood Grous, or Cock of 

 the Wood *. Comparifon will fhew with how little reafon the 

 Comte De Buffcn f makes it to be the female of the next fpecies, 

 our Spotted Grous. If the female of that was not afcertained, the 

 difference in the form of the tail would be fufficient to eflablifh 

 a diftindion j by which it approaches neareft to the Europan 

 Pheafant of any bird in North America. 



* Br. Zool. i. N" 92. tab. xl. f Oi/. ii. 279. 



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