DUSKY GROUSE. 
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l^rts, are broad, and sprinkled with black, so as to 
^ often blended with the lower band. The sides of 
head and the throat are whitish, dotted with 
(jj^kish, the black occupying both sides of each feather, 
jjpeuing and taking a bandlike appearance on the 
Ertor portion of the upper sides of the neck ; on each 
j'-her of the breast is a whitish band that becomes 
Ma* 0n tllose nearest the belly ; the flanks are varied 
tC' 1 rufous, each feather having, besides the small tip, 
st “« broad cross lines of that colour, and a white spot 
j.) 'he tip of the shaft, increasing in size as they are 
lower: the belly feathers are plain dull cinereous, 
at their base, 
C«d lower; the belly feathers are plain dull cinereous, 
w ,‘°wer tail-coverts are white, black at their base, 
one or two black bauds besides, and tinged between 
J 5 . ,J ands with grayish ochreous ; the wings are nine 
1 a half inches long, with the third and fifth primaries 
<}ual, the coverts, as well as the scapulars, are of 
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Of” general colour, with about two bands, the second 
Lukich is sprinkled as well as the tip, each feather 
d white on the shaft at tip ; the primaries, secon- 
and outer wing-coverts, including their shafts, 
^ Idai u dusky; the secondaries have ochreous zigzag 
d 4 ||hs on their outer webs, and are slightly tipped with 
Nt hhish ; the primaries themselves are somewhat 
ntJ'W with dingy white externally, but are notwith- 
l(, 'ding entirely without the regular white spots so 
Hi 
Stable in other grouse; the lower wing-coverts, 
0<r axillary feathers, are pure white. The tail 
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"^Orel in length seven and a half inches, is very 
n te ''y rounded, of twenty broad feathers, of which ^he 
^hir are plain blackish, with the exception of a few 
Hjj ' ls h dots at the base of their outer webs, and the 
fill. °nes being varied with rufous dots disposed like 
d 0 ), an ds across their whole width ; all are thickly 
s p,. r ' v ’ith gray for half an inch at tip, which in the 
ripi'-'oten described, but by no means so much so in 
gives the tail an appearance of having a broad 
fi. ll Oal band of cinereous sprinkled with blackish, 
''its c ' rcui nstance evinces the inutility ot describing 
the extreme minuteness to which we have 
