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C. Cauda cuneiforma. 

 C. Tail wedge-shaped. 



LONG-TAILED GROUS. 

 (Tetrao Phasianellus.) 



Te. corpore supra testaceo nigricante mrio ; pectore castaneo- 

 yiisco, maculis albis vario , latera colli tectricibusque alarum 

 maculis rotundatis albis, caudd cuneiformis ; rectricibus duabus 

 elongatis maculis ocellaribus notatis. 



Grous with the body above testaceous, varied with dusky j the 

 breast chesnut-browij^ varied with white spots j the sides of 

 the neck and the wing-coverts with rounded white spots the 

 tail wedge-shaped, the two middle feathers elongated, and 

 marked with ocellated spots. 



Tetrao Phasianellus. Linn. Systt, Nat, 1. 273. 1. /S. — Gmel. 

 Syst. Nat. 1. 747. — Lath, Ind. Orn. 2. 635. 2.'-Briss, Sup, 

 p, 9. — Temm. Ind. Gall. 70 1. 



Coq de Bruyeres a longue queue. Buff. Ois. 2. 286. 3. 



Tetras Phasianelle. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. 152. 



Sharp-tailed Grous. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 181. 



Long-tailed Grous. Phil. Trans, Ixii. p. 394. — Edw. Birds, p, 

 117. — Lath, Gen. Syn. 4. 732. 2. — Lath. Syn. Sup, 212. 



This curious bird is in length seventeen inches : 

 its beak is black : irides hazel : head, neck, and 

 upper parts of the body, testaceous, with transverse 

 black fasciae, which are broadest on the back : 

 between the beak and eyes a spot of white : sides 

 of the neck marked with roundish white spots ; 

 wing-coverts with spots and stripes of white: 

 quills black, spotted with white on their outer 



