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Immature male. — Like the adult but with juvenal outer primaries. 



Immature jemale. — Like the adult but with juvenal outer primaries. 



luvenal (sexes alike). — Not certainly distinguishable from that of the 

 nominate race. 



Downy young. — Like that of the nominate race but slightly duller, 

 more grayish below, and with the sides of the head faintly washed with 

 ochraceous-buff. 



Adult male. — ^Wing 161-166; tail 116-120; exposed culmen 14-16; 

 tarsus 34.2-37.3 ; middle toe without claw 36.7-37.8. <=! 



Adult female.— Wing 159-165 (162.3) ; tail 97-103 (100.7) ; exposed 

 culmen 13.8-17 (15.8) ; tarsus 34.8-35.9 (35.3) ; middle toe without claw 

 34-36.5 (35.5 mm.).^^ 



Range. — Resident in spruce forests in the Gaspe Peninsula, New 

 Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and northeastern Maine (Calais, Washington 

 County, St. Croix River). 



Type locality. — Kejimkujik Lake, on the boundary between Annapolis 

 and Queens Counties, Nova Scotia. 



Tetrao canadensis (not of Linnaeus) Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, 

 ii, pt. 1, 1826, 127, part; ii, 1828, 442, part; Geogr. and Comp. List, 1838, 44, 

 part. — Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 1831, SOI, part. — Nuttall, }ilan. Om. United 

 States and Canada, Land Birds, 1832, 667, part; ed. 2, 1840, 811, part.— 

 AtrouBON, Om. Biogr., ii, 1834, 437, part; v, 1839, 563, part; Synopsis, 1839, 

 203, part; Birds Amer., 8vo ed., v, 1842, 83, part.— Baied, Rep. Pacif. R. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 622, part (Nova Scotia) ; Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 

 460, part.— CouES, Check List North Amer. Birds, 1874, No. 380, part. 



[Tetrao] canadensis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 276, No. 9825, part.— Coues, Key 

 North Amer. Birds, 1872, 233, part. 



Canace canadensis Elliot, Monogr. Tetraonidae, 1869, pi. 9 and text, part. — 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist North Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, pi. 59, figs. 

 5, 6 (Nova Scotia).— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 196, part; 

 Nom. North Amer. Birds, 1881, No. 472, part. — Coues, Check List North 

 Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1882, No. 555, part. 



C[atwce] canadensis Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 578, part. 



Canace canadensis var. canadensis Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. 

 Birds, iii, 1874, 416, part. 



Dendragapus canadensis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 355, part. — 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, No. 298, part, 1886; ed. 2, 

 1895, No. 298, part. 



D[endragapus] canadensis Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 196, part. 



Canachites canadensis Ogilvie-Gbant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 69, part 

 (Musquash, New Brunswick; Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia). — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Auk, xvi, 1899, 107, part. — Macoun, Cat. Can. Birds, 

 1900, 200, part (Nova Scotia; New Brunswick).— Judd, U. S. Biol. Surv. 

 Bull. 24, 1905, 38-40, part (range, food, etc.). — Macoun and Macoun, Cat. 

 Can. Birds, ed. 2, 1909, 218 part (Nova Scotia; New Brunswick) .—Taverner, 

 Birds Canada, 1934, 153 in text, part. 



" Two specimens from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. 

 "Three specimens from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. 



