1276 
CANADA GROUS. 
It is thirteen inches and a half in length : the 
upper parts of the head, neck, body, and rump, 
are transversely barred with dusky and grey- 
brown : over the eyelids is a bare carunculated red 
space : nostrils covered with black, with a small 
white spot on each side, and one of the same 
beneath, and somewhat behind the eye : throat, 
breast, and belly, black ; the latter spotted with 
white, except the middle : sides of the body barred 
transversely with grey-brown and dusky ; the 
feathers with a white stripe near the tip : under 
tail-coverts black and white : tail black, tipped 
with rufous : feathers of the tarsi grey-brown : 
claws grey : beak black. 
The female is less : length eleven inches and a 
half: the upper parts of the body barred and varied 
with rufous, dusky, and grey-brown : front and 
sides of the neck rufous, each feather wu'th a dusky 
band near the tip : breast barred with rufous, and 
dusky, each feather tipped with dirty rufous white : 
the sides wdth brown bars : the tips of the feathers 
sullied white : belly and under tail-coverts crossed 
with blackish and rufous white : wings like those 
of the male : tail barred with reddish and black. 
A variety of this species is mentioned by La- 
tham ; — ‘‘ General colour of its plumage ferru- 
ginous cream-colour, marbled and striated across 
with brown and yellow clay-colour : fore-part of 
the neck and breast more inclined to yellow : 
under parts of the body white, marked with broken 
bars of cinereous brown : quills plain brownish 
cream-colour : tail yellowish brown, prettily mot- 
