CANADA GROUS. 



It is thirteen inches and a half in length : the 

 upper parts of the head, neck, body, and rump, 

 are transversely barred with dusky and grey- 

 brown : over the eyelids is a bare carunculated red 

 space : nostrils covered with black, with a small 

 white spot on each side, and one of the same 

 beneath, and somewhat behind the eye : throat, 

 breast, and belly, black ; the latter spotted with 

 white, except the middle : sides of the body barred 

 transversely with grey-brown and dusky ; the 

 feathers with a white stripe near the tip : under 

 tail-coverts black and white : tail black, tipped 

 with rufous : feathers of the tarsi grey-brown : 

 claws grey : beak black. 



The female is less : length eleven inches and a 

 half : the upper parts of the body barred and varied 

 with rufous, dusky, and grey-brown : front and 

 sides of the neck rufous, each feather with a dusky 

 band near the tip : breast barred with rufous, and 

 dusky, each feather tipped with dirty rufous white : 

 the sides with brown bars : the tips of the feathers 

 sullied white : belly and under tail-coverts crossed 

 with blackish and rufous white : wings like those 

 of the male : tail barred with reddish and black, 



A variety of this species is mentioned by La- 

 tham ; — " General colour of its plumage ferru- 

 ginous cream-colour, marbled and striated across 

 with brown and yellow clay-colour : fore-part of 

 the neck and breast more inclined to yellow : 

 under parts of the body white, marked with broken 

 bars of cinereous brown : quills plain brownish 

 cream-colour : tail yellowish brown, prettily mot- 



