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the scapulars deeply tinged with pale purple, and marked with detached 
drops of glossy blue, reflecting tints of purple ; belly pule vinaceous 
brown, becoming dark cinereous towards the vent, where the feathers 
are bordered with white ; wing quills dusky outwardly and at the tips ; 
lower sides, and whole interior vanes, a fine red chestnut, which shows 
itself a little below their coverts ; tail rounded, consisting of twelve 
feathers, the two middle ones cinereous brown, the rest black, tipped and 
edged with white ; legs and feet yellow. 
The female has the back and tail coverts of a mouse color, with little 
or none of the vinaceous tint on the breast and throat, nor any of the 
light blue on the hind head ; the throat is speckled with dull white, pale 
clay color, and dusky ; sides of the neck the same, the plumage strongly 
defined ; breast cinereous brown, slightly tinctured with purple ; sca- 
pulars marked with large drops of a dark purplish blood color, reflecting 
cints of blue ; rest of the plumage nearly the same as that of the male. 
Genus LVI. TETRAO. 
Species I. T. VMBELLUS. 
RUFFED GROUSE. 
[Plate XLIX.] 
Arct. Zool. p. 301, No. 179.— Ruffed Heath-cock, or Grouse, Edw. 248.-7.fi GeUnote 
huppie de Pennsylvania, Briss. i., 214. — PI. Enl. 104. — Buff, ii., 281. — Phil. 
Trans. 62, 393.— Turt. Syst. 454. 
This is the Partridge of the Eastern States, and the Pheasant of 
Pennsylvania, and the southern districts. It is represented in the plate 
of its full size ; and was faithfully copied from a perfect and very beau- 
tiful specimen. 
Tins elegant species is well known in almost every quarter of the 
United States, and appears to inhabit a very extensive range of country. 
It is common at Moose Fort, on Hudson's Bay, in lat. 51° ; is frequent 
in the upper parts of Georgia ; very abundant in Kentucky and the 
Indiana territory ; and was found by Captains Lewis and Clarke in 
crossing the great range of mountains that divide the waters of the 
Columbia and Missouri, more than three thousand miles, by their mea- 
surement, from the mouth of the latter. Its favorite places of resort 
are high mountains, covered with the balsam pine, hemlock, and such 
like evergreens. Unlike the Pinnated Grouse, it always prefers the 
woods ; is seldom or never found in open plains ; but loves the pine- 
