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g_ Tetrao umbellus, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 275. 6. 



I- RUFFED GR. La Gelinotte hupee de Penfilvanie, Brif. orn. i. p. 214. 11. 

 Le Coq de Bruyere a fraife, Buf. oif. ii. p. 281. 



Ruffed Heathcock, F.dnu. pi. 248. — Phil. Tranf. vol. xlviii. p, 499. pi, 15.— 

 ArSl. Zool. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. ClZE between a Pheafant and Partridge: length twenty 

 inches. Bill brownifh horn-colour : the head crefled ; that, 

 and all the upper parts* variegated with different-coloured browns, 

 mixed with black : the feathers on the neck are long, and loofe r 

 and can be erefted like thofe of the Cock : throat, and fore part of 

 the neck, orange brown : the reft of the parts beneath yellowifli 

 white, marked with a few curved black marks on the breaft and 

 fides : under tail coverts pale orange, fpotted with white : the 

 quills are fpotted with pale brown, otherwife like the back : as is. 

 the tail, which confifts of eighteen feathers ; all of which are 

 crofTed with narrow bars of black, and one broad band of the 

 fame near the tip ; the end itfelf afh-colour : the legs are co- 

 vered to the toes with whitifh hairs t toes fiefh-colour, and 

 peftinated on the fides. 



One of thefe now in my pofTeffion, which I fufpecT: to be a 

 female, is much paler in the markings : the tail afh-colour, crofTed 

 with dufky bars, and mottled with the fame between each bar ; 

 the broad band near the end of a chefnut brown inftead of 

 black. 

 Ft ace and This fpeeies inhabits Penfylvania, Nezv York> Nova Scotia, and 



other parts of North America ; and is by no means the male of 

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