II! 



[ 3«9 3 



Gallinae. 



Gallinaceous. Faun. Am. Sept, 



£.Tetrao. J i5Canadenfis,274.3.~l Faun. Am. Sept. 10. 



Grous. [Canace, 27 5. y j Spotted Grous. 



Gelinotte du Canada, male et femelle, PI. enl. . 



131 et 132. Buffon Oifeaux II. p. 279. 4to. . 



BriiTon I. p. 2*03. t. 20. f. 1,2, and p. 201. app, . 



10. Edwards, t. 118 and 71. 

 Severn River, N° 5. Woodpartridge. 



Thefe birds are all the year long at Hudfon's 

 Bay, and never change the colour of their 

 plumage. The accounts from Hudfon's Bay 

 fay, there is no material difference between 

 the male and female j which mufl be a mil- 

 take, as. they are really very different. Lin- 

 neus's defcriptions of the Tetrao Canadenfis, 

 and Canace, both anfwer to the fpecimens fent 

 over, fo thatj after comparing them, 1 . find 

 they are only one and the fame fpecies. I 

 fuppofe the dividing them into two, was 00 

 oalioned by Briffon's and Edwards's defcrip- 

 tions, being taken from, fpecimens fent from 

 different parts of the continent of . America, 

 and perhaps caught at different feafons. Mr. 

 de Buffon has, I find, the fame opinion with 

 me, .and by comparing the drawings of Ed- 

 wards, with thefe, of the Planches enluminees, 

 it is put beyond a doubt.. Thefe birds are 

 very ffupid, may be knocked down with a 

 flick, and are frequently caught by the na- 

 *-■ tives 



