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TETRAO UMBELLUS. 
is peculiarljr white, tender, and delicate, unequalled, in 
these qualities, by that of any other of its genus in the 
United States. 
The quail, as it is called in New England, or the 
partridge, as in Pennsylvania, is nine inches long, and 
fourteen inches in extent ; the bill is black ; line over 
the eye, down the neck, and whole chin, pure whitCj 
bounded by a band of black, which descends and spreads 
broadly over the throat ; the eye is dark hazel ; crown, 
neck, and upper part of the breast, red brown ; sides of 
the neck, spotted u'ith white and black on a reddish 
brown ground ; back, scapulars, and lesser coverts, red 
hrotvii, intermixed with ash, and sprinkled with bl.ack i 
tertials, edged with yellowish white; wings, plain 
dusky ; lower part of the breast and belly, pale yellowish 
white, beautifully marked with numerous curving 
spots or arrow-heads of black ; tail, ash, sprinkled with 
reddish brown ; legs, very pale ash. 
The female differs in having the chin and sides of 
the head yellowish brown, in which dress it has been 
described as a different kind. There is, however, only 
one species of quail at present known within the 
United States. 
GENUS XXXVUL-TETSAO, tisssus. 
SUBGENUS I BOITASIA, BON.VPARTE. 
191 . TETltAO UM BELLUSi I.INN.EUS AND WILSON. 
RUFFED GROUSE. 
WILSON, PLATE. XLIX EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
This is the partridge of the Eastern States, and th*^ 
pheasant of Pennsylvania and the southern districts. 
This elegant species is well known in almost ever) 
quarter of the United States, and appears to iuhah* 
a very extensive range of country. It is common ** 
Moose Fort, on Hudson’s Bay, in'lat. 51°; is frcqucj'’^ 
in the upper parts of Georgia; very abundant 
Kentucky and the Indiana territory; and was font' 
