CANADA GROUS. 
(Tetrao Canadensis,) 
Te. corpore supra nigricante obscure Jiisco cinereoque vario ^ 
subtus albo lunvlis nigris consperso ; collo infra pectoreqiie 
nigris ; pone oculos lunulis duabus albis ; rectricibus nigris, 
apice fuscis. (Femina corpore fusco-aurantio cinereoque trans- 
versim striato ; cauda fused, nigro nebuloso fasciola, apice 
fidvo.) 
Grous with the body above dusky, obscurely varied with brown 
and cinereous, beneath white, sprinkled with black lunules ; 
the lower part of the neck and the breast black ; behind the 
eyes two white lunules ■, the tail-feathers black, tipped with 
brown. [Female with the body fuscous-orange, transversely 
striated with cinereous the tail fuscous, clouded, and banded 
with black ; the tip fulvous.) 
Tetrao Canadensis. Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 274. 3. — Gmel. Syst. 
Nat. 1. 749. 3. — Lath, Ind. Orn. 2. 637. 6. male; 0. female. 
Temm. Gall. Ind. 702. 
Tetrao Cance. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 275. 7- female. — Gmel. Syst. 
Nat. 1. 749. 3. 6. female. 
Bonasa freti Hudsonis. Briss. Orn. 1. 201. 6. — Briss. Sup. p. 10. 
Bonasa Canadensis. Briss. Orn. 1, 203. 7- 20. yi I, 2. male 
and female. 
La Gelinotte du Canada. Buf. Ois. 2. 279. — Buff. PI. Enl. 
131 and 132. 
Tetras tachet6, ou Acaho. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. 16O. bis. 
Black and spotted Heathcock. Edw. Glean, pi. 1 18. male. 
Brown and spotted Heathcock. Edvoard. pi. 71. female. 
Spotted Grous, or Wood Partridge. Phil. Trans, l.xii. p. 389, 
— Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 182. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 735. 6 . — 
Lath. Syn. Sup.j). 214. 
This species abounds in the neighbourhood of 
Hudson’s Jiay and alJ the northern part of America. 
