SHOULDER-KNOT HEATHCOCK. 301 



laribus majoribus, elongatis, nigris azureis ; uropygio guttis 

 qlbis consperso ; caudd Jasciatd, prope apicem Jascid latiore 

 nigra, apice cinereo alba. 



Heathcock with the head crested ; the body above variegated 

 with fuscous, red and black, beneath fulvous white j the breast 

 varied with brown lunules ; the feathers of the axillae larger, 

 elongated, and of a deep azure 5 the rump sprinkled with white 

 spots J the tail fasciated, near the tip a broad black fascia, 

 the tip greyish-white. 



Attagen Pensylvanica. Briss. Orn. 1. 214. 11. 



Bonasa major Canadensis. Briss, Orn. 1. 207- 8. pL 21. 1. 

 female. 



Tetrao Umbellus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 275. 6. — Gmel. Syst, 

 Nat. 1. 752. — Lath. Ind, Orn. 2. 638. 7. male. female. — 

 Temm. Gall. Ind. 704. — Wills, Amer. Orn. VI. p. 45. pi, 

 XLIX. 



Tetrao togatus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 275. 8. female. — G77iel. 



Syst. Nat. 1. 752. — female. 

 Coq de Bruyere a fraise. Buf. Ois. 2. 181 . 

 La grosse Gelinotte de Canada. Buff". Ois, 2. 281. — female. 



Buf. PL Enl. 104. female. 

 Tetras a fraise. Temm, Pig. et Gall, 3. p. 165. 

 Ruffed Grous. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. I7g. — Lath, Gen, Syn. 4. 



738. 8. — Lath, Syn, Sup. 215. — Bing. Anim. Biog. 2. p. 251. 

 Shoulder-knot Grous. Phil. Trans. LXII. p. 393. — female. — 



Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 737' 7* — female. 

 Ruffed Heathcock. Phil, Trans, XLVIII. p, 499. pi. 15.— 



Edvo, Glean, pi. 248. 



The male of this species when in full plumage 

 has the top of the head, the cheeks, and the nape, 

 of a beautiful red, with transverse brown stripes : 

 the whole of the upper parts of the plumage, as 

 well as the tail, have their prevailing colour red : 

 the top of the back is varied with irregular black 

 and grey spots the middle of the back and the 

 rump have an oval white spot in the middle of 



