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C. Cauda cuneiforma. 
€. Tail wedge-shaped. 
LONG-TAILED GROUS. 
(Tetrao Phasianellus.) 
Te. corpore supra testaceo nigricante vario ; pectore castaneo~ 
Jiisco, maculis albis vario ; latera colli tectricibusque alarum 
maculis rotundatis albis, cauda cunei/hrmis ; rectricibus duabus 
elongatis maculis ocellaribus iiotatis. 
Grous with the body above testaceous, varied with dusky 5 the 
breast chesnut-brown, varied with white spots ; the sides of 
the neck and the wing-coverts with rounded white spots j the 
tail wedge-shaped, the two middle feathers elongated, and 
marked with ocellated spots. 
Tetrao Pliasianellus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 273. 1. 0. — Gmel. 
Syst. Nat. 1. 747* — Lath. Ind, Orn. 2. 635. 2. — Briss. Sup. 
p. g. — Temm. Ind. Gall. 7OI. 
Coq de Bruyeres ^ longue queue. Buff. Ois. 2. 286. 3. 
Tetras Phasianelle. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. 152. 
Sharp-tailed Grous. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 181. 
Long-tailed Grous. Phil. Trans. Ixii. p. 394. — Edxu. Birds, p. 
117. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 732. 2. — Lath. Sy7i. Sup. 112. 
This curious bird is in length seventeen inches : 
its beak is black : irides hazel : head, neck, and 
upper parts of the body, testaceous, with transverse 
black fasciae, which are broadest on the back : 
between the beak and eyes a spot of white : sides 
of the neck marked with roundish white spots : 
wing-coverts with spots and stripes of white : 
quills black, spotted with white on their outer 
