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CANADA GROUS. 

 (Tetrao Canadensis.) 



Te. corpore supra nigricante obscure fusco cinereoque vario ; 

 subtus albo lunulis nigris consperso ; collo infra pectoreque 

 nigris ; pone oculos lunulis duabus albis ; rectricibus nigris, 

 apice fuscis. (Femina corpore Jusco-aurantio cinereoque trans- 

 versim striato ; caudd fused, iiigro nebuloso fasciatd, apice 

 fulvo.) 



Grous with the body above dusky, obscurely varied with brown 

 and cinereous, beneath white, sprinkled with black lunules j 

 the lower part of the neck and the breast black ; behind the 

 eyes two white lunules j the tail-feathers blatik, tipped with 

 brown. {Female with the body fuscous-orange, transversely 

 striated with cinereous j the tail fuscous, clouded, and banded 

 with black ; the tip fulvous.) 



Tetrao Canadensis. Li?in. Syst. Nat. 1.274.3. — Gmel. Syst. 

 Nat, 1. 749. 3. — Lath, Ind. Orn, 2. 637. 6. male; female. 

 Temm. Gall. Ind. 702. 



Tetrao Canoe. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 275. 7. female. — Gmel. Syst. 

 Nat. 1. 749. 3. 6. female. 



Bonasa freti Hudsonis. Briss. Orn. 1 . 201 . 6. — Briss. Sup. p. 10. 



Bonasa Canadensis. Briss. Orn. 1. 203. 7. pL 20. f 1, 2. male 

 and female. 



La Gelinotte du Canada. Buff. Ois. 2. 279- — BuJ\ PI. Enl. 

 131 and 132. 



Tetras tachet6, ou Acaho. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. I60. bis. 

 Black and spotted Heathcock. Edxv. Glean.pl. 118. male. 

 Brown and spotted Heathcock. Edward, pi. 71. female. 

 Spotted Grous, or Wood Partridge. Phil. Trans. Ixii. 889. 



— Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 182. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 735. 6. — 



Lath. Syn. Sup. p. 214. 



This species abounds in the neighbourhood of 

 Hudson's Bay and all the northern part of America. 



