234 grous. 



a loop, at the end of a long pole. If one is shot, its mate scarcely 

 moves from the place, and will suffer itself to have a noose put over 

 the head, whilst on a tree, &c. It makes the nest in May, in a hole 

 in the moss, and lays from five to ten eggs, marked with black, 

 yellow, and white spots ; hatch in June ; the young bird is yellow, 

 and flies soon after it is hatched : the name given by the natives is 

 Mistic-a-pethou. 



A.— Spotted Grous, Gen. Syn. Sup. 214. 



Length sixteen inches. General colour of the plumage ferru- 

 ginous cream, marbled and striated across with brown and yellow 

 clay-colour ; fore part of the neck and breast inclined to yellow ; 

 under parts of the body white, spotted, or rather barred, with cine- 

 reous brown ; quills brownish cream-colour; tail yellowish brown, 

 prettily mottled with darker brown ; the tips of all the feathers pale 

 ferruginous. 



This Variety was added to my collection by the late Mr. Hutchins, 

 who received it among others from Hudson's Bay. The legs were 

 wanting. 



6.— RUFFED GROUS. 



MALE. 



Tetrao Umbellus, hid. Orn.u. 638. Lin.\. 275. Gm.Lin. i. 752. Borowsk. ii. 185. t.31. 



Attagen Pennsylvania?, Bris. i. 214. Id. Svo. i. 59. 



Tetrao Tympanus, Pheasant of Pennsylvania, Bartr. 288. 



Coq de Bruyere a fraise, Buf. ii. 281. Id. Sonnin. vi. 63. pi. 42. f. 1. Tab. Enc. 



Orn. p. 198. pi. 191. f. 3. Temm. Pig. $ Gall. 8vo. iii. p. 165. 

 Ruffed Heathcock, Phil. Trans, xlviii. 499. pi. 15. Edw. pi. 248. 

 — — — Grous, Gen. Syn. iv. 738. Id. Sup. 215. Wood's Zoogr. i. p. 470. Amer. 



Orn. vi. p. 45. pi. 49. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 179. Frankl. Narr. App. p. 679. 



LENGTH twenty inches. Bill brownish horn-colour ; feathers 

 of the crown long, and may be erected as a crest ; head and all the 

 upper parts variegated with different coloured browns, and a mixture 



