SHOULDER-KNOT HEATHCOCK. 
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laribus majoribus, dongntisj 7iigris azureis ; uropygio guUis 
albis consj^erso ; caudd Jasciatd, prope ajncan fascid latiore 
nigrd, apice cinereo alba, 
Heathcock with the head crested j the body above variegated 
with fuscous, red and black, beneath fulvous white; the breast 
varied with brown lunules ; the feathers of the axillse larger, 
elongated, and of a deep azure ; the rump sprinkled with white 
spots; the tail fasciated, near the tip a broad black fascia, 
the tip greyish-white. 
Attagen Pensylvanica, Briss. Orn. 1. 214. 11. 
Bonasa major Canadensis. Briss. Orn. 1. 207- 8. pi. 21. 1. 
female. 
Tetrao Umbellus. Linjz. Syst. Nat. 1. 2/5. 6. — Gmel. Syst. 
Nat. 1. 752. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 638. 7- male. &. female. — 
Temm. Gall. Ind. 704. — Wills. Amer. Orn. VI. p. 45. pi. 
XLIX. 
Tetrao togatus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 275. 8. female. — Gmel. 
Syst. Nat. 1. 752. — female. 
Coq de Bruyere a fraise. Buff. Ois. 2. 181 . 
La grosse Gelinotte de Canada. Buff. Ois. 2. 281. — female. 
Buff. PI. Enl. 104. female. 
Tetras ^ fraise. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3.p. 165. 
RufiFed Grous. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 179- — Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 
738. 8. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 215. — Bing. Anim. Biog. 2. p. 251. 
Shoulder-knot Grous. Phil. Trans. LXII. p. 3Q3. — female. — 
Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 737* 7* — female. 
RufiFed Heathcock. Phil. Trans. XLVIII. p. 4Qg. pi. 15.— 
Bdvi. Glean.pl. 248. 
The male of this species when in full plumage 
has the top of the head, the cheeks, and the nape, 
of a beautiful red, with transverse brown stripes : 
the whole of the upper parts of the plumage, as 
wel] as the tail, have their prevailing colour red : 
the top of the back is varied with irregular black 
and grey spots ; the middle of the back and the 
rump have an oval white spot in the middle of 
