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2> Tetrao Phafiairellus, Lin. SyJI, L p. 273. N° 1. Var./S. 



+- LONG- Hudfon's Bay Pheafant Grous, Phil. Tranf. vol. Ixiii. p. £96. 



TAILED GR. Long-tailed Grous from Hudfon's Bay, Ed<w. pi. 117. 



Description. "O AT HER bigger than a Pheafant: length feventeen inches r 

 breadth twenty-four. Bill black : hides hazel : head, neckb- 

 and upper parts, teftaceous, tranfverfely fafciated with black; the 

 bands broadeft on the back : between the bill and eyes a white 

 ipot : fides of the neck marked with roundifh whitifh fpots :" 

 rump hoary : the breaft and belly whitifh, marked with cordated' 

 fpots of a teftaceous brown colour, deepeft on the belly : on the 

 wing coverts round white fpots, as well as ftripes : quills black,, 

 fpotted with white on the outer edge j fecondaries brown, fafci- 

 ated on the outer edge and tip with white : tail fhort; the out- 

 fide feathers pale brown, tipped with white; the two middle ones 

 longeft by half an inch, and fpotted with teftaceous. 

 Female. The male and female vary very little in colour, nor change with 



the feafons. The breaft of the male is chocolate-brown ; and the 

 caruncle over the eye much the largeft, being one inch long, and 1 

 three-eighths of an inch high. 



Dr. Forft'er is of opinion that this bird is totally different from 

 the Wood Grous, and that Edwards' % plate is molt probably a va- 

 riety of this fpecies, rather than the female of that bird; the tail 

 being cuneiform is a true fpecific diftinction ; and befides, the 

 axillary feathers are not white, as in the female of the Wood 

 Grous. 

 Place. This is found aX^Hudfon's Bay, and called by the natives. Oc- - 



kijf-cow° . 



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