SPOTTED GROUS. 307 



The Indians about Hudfon's Bay csM this fpecies the Au Kujkow' 

 It continues there the whole year ; lives among the fmall larch bu(hes, 

 and feeds, during winter, on the buds of that plant and the birch -, 

 in the fummer, on all forts of berries. The females lay from nine 

 to thirteen eggs. The young, like others of this genus, run as 

 foon as hatched, and make a puling noife like a chicken. They 

 differ chiefly from the cock, in having lefs of the red naked 

 fltin over the eyes. The cock has a fhrill crowing note, but not 

 very loud. When difturbed, or while flying, it makes a repeated 

 noife of c«f^, cuk; and makes a noife with the feathers of its tail ] 



like the cracking of a fan. The flefli of thefe birds is of a light brown 

 color, plump, and very juicy. 



Black and Spotted Heathcock (male) Ediu. Ii8. ,82, Spotted. 



Brown and Spotted Heathcock (female) Edw. 71. 

 Tetrao Canadenfis (male) Lin. Syft. 274. 

 Tetrao Canace (female) Litt. SyJ{. 275. — Latham. 



LTiGelinote Je la Bay e de Hud/on, Brljfon, i. 201. and the fame, App. 10. (male.) 

 La Gelinote de Canada, Briffon, i. 203. tab. xx. fig. i. 2. (m. and fern.) — De 

 Buffon, ii. 279. — PI. EnL 131, 132. 



/^R. With a white fpot before and behind each eye : head, neck, 

 back, and coverts of the wings and tail, duflcy brown, crofTed 

 with black : throat of a glofly black, bounded by a white line, 

 commencing at the external corner of each eye : bread of the for- 

 mer color : belly white, marked with great black fpots : tail black, 

 external feathers tipt with orange : legs feathered : toes naked and 

 pedtinated. 



The FEMALE is of a reddilh brown, barred and fpotted with black: Femalb,, 

 belly of a dirty white, fpotted with black : tail of a deep brown, 

 barred with mottled bands of black j the tips of the exterior feathers 

 orange. 



The Weight is twenty-three ounces; Length fifteen inches: She. 

 Extent near two feet. 



R r a Inhabits 



