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TETRAO PIXASIANELLUS. 
the back and rum]} are black, transversely varied f 
the margin and at tip, with pale bright rusty, spring 
with black, forming a confused mixture of black al \ 
rusty on the whole upper parts of the bird; the Iff, 
loose-webbed upper tail-coverts being similar, fi 
decidedly and almost regularly banded with black, a ,. 
sprinkled with rusty, this colour being there aif . 
lighter and approaching to white, and even constiU’fi 
the ground colour. The breast is brown, approach 1 . 1 , 
to chocolate, each feather being terminated by a o' 1 " , 
frmge, with a large arrow-shaped spot of that colon 1 ' ® 
the middle of each feather, so that, when the pilin' 1 ’;, 
lies close, the feathers appear white with black crescef ’ 
and are generally described so. On the lower port"’ 
ol the breast, the white spots, as they descend, bcf*h 
longer and narrower, the branches forming the a 11 -, 
coming closer and closer to each other, till the df 
becomes a mere white streak along the shaft, bid, * 
the same time, the white marginal fringe widen* , , 
considerably, that the feathers of the belly m»f 
properly called white, being brown only at their b aS ' 
but the shaft is white even there, with no more tbf 
brown heart-shaped spot visible oil the middle. 
heart-shaped brown spots of the belly become so ff' 
small at the vent, that this part appears pure n'b 1 , 
with a few very small blackish spots; the long 
feathers are broadly banded with black and "'bf 
somewhat tinged with ochrons exteriorly; the u»f. 
tail-coverts are white, blackish along the sh at J, 
and more or less varied with black in different 
mens, which also vary considerably as to the siz ft 
shape of all the spots, being in some more acute, 
others more rounded, & c . The wings are eight 
long, the third and fourth primaries being the loogf .^ 
the scapulars are uniform with the back, but, bes 1 { 
the rusty sprinkling of the margins and tip, the M? a 
have narrow bandlike spots of a pure bright rufo "*’ ' t 
slight whitish streak along the shaft in the centre, a 
a large white spot at the end. The smaller wing-covf j 
are plain chocolate brown ; the spurious wing, ® 
