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'black j the laft fpotted with white, except in the middle : fides 

 tranfverftly barred with blackifh and grey brown, with a dafh of 

 white near the tips : under tail coverts black and white : tail 

 black, tipped with rufous : legs covered with grey brown fea- 

 thers : claws grey : toes pectinated. 

 /Female. The female is fmaller ; in length only eleven inches and a half. 



.All the ;upper parts are crofied with rufous, blackifh, and grey 

 brown, forming large patches of the fame on the back : fore 

 part and fides of the neck rufous, crofied with blackifh bands 

 near the end of each feather : breaft crofied with rufous and 

 blackifh, tipped with dirty rufous white : belly, and under tail 

 coverts, barred with blackifh and rufous white ; the fides with 

 brown and rufous grey, tipped with dirty white: quills as in the 

 male: tail barred with rufous -and black : toes pectinated. 



;Flace and Thefe are met with at HudforCs Bay, where they are called 



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Wood or Spruce Partridges, In winter, feed on fpruce-cones and 



juniper-berries. They are eaten at all times, but thought much 

 better in the fummer-feafon. The natives preferve them through 

 the winter by expofing them to the froft, hanging them up by 

 the bill, and during the whole. of .the inclement feafon will keep 

 good, fo that they have only to lay them in water to thaw them 

 before their being dreffed. They are eafily got at in great num- 

 bers, as they are very ftupid birds, and may be knocked on the 

 head with a flick ; and frequently are caught by a flick and a 

 loop. They make the neft on the ground, and lay five eggs. 

 When much difiurbed, often fly into trees, and if the fportfman 

 has a little dog with him to take off" their attention, they may 

 be fhot one after another to the laft bird. 



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