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TETRAO CANADENSIS. 
same side with eight or ten squarish, equidistant, wl* 1 
spots, with a few inconspicuous whitish dots ®' 
their inner web besides ; the secondaries are also du - ^ 
hut in them the spots take the appearance of bands <’®® 
tinued across the whole feather, of which bands tbe f " 
are three or four, including the terminal; the i |1 "'| 1 
secondaries become darker and darker as they app r ° a<: t . 
the body, the white becomes rufous, the dots are " 1<,r 
frequent, and they become confounded with the sc#P ; 
lars, and are banded and mottled with various tint' 
black and rusty ; the lower wing-coverts and I® 1 * 
axillary feathers are pure white, the outer eoV cr ( 
being marbled with dusky. The tail is composed 'j 
eighteen feathers ; it is cuneiform, very short. j'L 
entirely hidden by the coverts, except the four mid", 
feathers; the two middle feathers are flaccid, 
equal in breadth throughout, longer than the others ‘’j 
more than an inch, rusty, crossed by chained ^ 
black, and dotted with black and whitish at tipi f h 
two next are also longer than the others, nearly wh^ 
T a ^ mos ^ similar in shape, markings, and texture . 
the longest; the lateral decrease in size very fast 
the centre, but by regular degrees, and are remark^ 
stilt, somewhat like those of woodpeckers, wid 6 * J 
base and tip than in the middle, pure white at the e , 
and on the inner web, the shaft black, and the o* l i 
web dotted with blackish ; they are deeply emarg»® a *w 
at tip, the inner lobe being longer, acute, and sing^ 7 
shaped. 
44. TETRAO CA1VADENCIS . — SPOTTED GROUSE. 
BONAPARTE, PLATE XX. MALE J PLATE XXI. FIG. 1. FEMaU** 
EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
As may be seen by the synonymy, two sep^'j 
species have been made of the present, the mal e ,l r 
female being taken for different birds. This <' rr 
which originated with Edwards and Brisson, fr®- 
whom it was copied by Linne, was rectitied by 
Forster, and others ; and in their decision Gib® 
