SHARP-TAILED GROUSE. 
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n J in the limits of these States. He met with it on 
i s e u pper waters of the Missouri, but observes, that it 
r, peculiarly the inhabitant of the great plains of the 
ti,! i |irt| biii. He states also, that the scales, or lateral 
Jesses of the toes, with which it is furnished in 
“ter, like the rest of its genus, drop off iu summer. 
!•„ N iutrodueed the species regularly into the scientific 
) ( ' (Jr dsof his country. The expedition under Major 
jj° n ? brought back a specimen now in the Philadelphia 
from which, though a female, and unusually 
coloured, we have taken our description, on 
of its having been procured in the American 
^ritor v mu _ i.!„j oonti in anv ftf thi» Atlantic 
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•y. The bird is never seen in any of the Atlantic 
|, : though numerous in high northern latitudes. 
ki' s common near Severn River and Albany Fort, 
(uHitino. the uncultivated lands in the neighbourhood 
‘he settlements, and particularly near the southern 
- — - • " bciw often killed in winter 
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Cf^ort York; but it does not extcnd^its range to 
> f chm. Near Fort William, on Lake Superior, the 
ij'J’ P'tailed grouse is also found in spring, and we have 
n specimens killed in winter at Cumberland House, 
i t . others at York Factory iu summer. In collections 
l,j ls v cry rare; and Temminck, when he wrote his 
n^Ofy of gallinaceous birds, bad never seen a specimen, 
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, Old it exist at the time in any European museum. 
J. 1 is by the shape of the tail that this grouse is 
gently distinguished from all others. The English 
a,"* 6 which we have, with Mr Sabine, selected from 
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tail Oftnt, is much more applicable than that ot long- 
i t H given by Edwards ; for instead of being long, 
cJ s *. except the middle feathers, remarkably^ short, 
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il„ ,'ihrm, and acute, more resembling that ot some 
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bum* than of the pheasant. By the elongated feathers, 
no other particular, this species approaches tne 
r| cau g enus i> ter ocles. At Hudson’s Bay it is oalled 
4t l aut > a name which, though inappropriate, seems, 
I“ a st, better applied to this than the rutted grouse. 
tj\ e original writers that have mentioned this grouse 
> Edwards, wbo first introduced it, and ln\s figured 
