LONG-TAJLED GROUSE. 
like hairs ; of ^ whitish brown colour, trans- 
versely variegated with dusky Itnes. The toes 
and claws are of a dusky blackish colour. 
Each toe is pectinated on both sides ; as arev- 
the toes in all this tribe of birds." 
To this minute description of the individual 
bird figured, Edwards subjoins the following^ 
particulars ; which, together, comprehend the 
whole of his account. 
This bird," concludes Edwards, ** was- 
brought, by Mr. Isham, from Hudson's Bay^ 
where it is called a Pheasant : it's long tail, 
and colour, agreeing very well with our Hen 
Pheasant ; and the Male of this bird may, per- 
haps, resemble the Cock Pheasant as nearly. 
I suppose, when living, it had a red space 
above it's eyes, in form of eye-brows, as all of 
this genus have : bur, as I could not make 
them plain in the dried bird, I have omitted 
them in my figure raid description. I believe, 
I may pronounce this bird a non-descript. Dr. 
Michel, a physician of Virginia, now in Eng- 
land, on seeing my original draught of this 
bird, says that they have the same in the woods 
and 
