SPOTTED GROUSE. 
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I' l ru ) and all subsequent writers have acquiesced, 
a 1 sexes were tolerably well figured by Buffon, as 
1 had also been previously by Edwards. 
f 0u spotted grouse is well characterized by its 
f«at| funded tail, of but sixteen broad and rounded 
“Hi, s ’ an( l may he at once distinguished from all 
“a, <!r . s by the lai-ge and conspicuous white spots orna- 
li^hng the breast, flanks, and under tail-coverts. It 
^ been inacurately compared with the European 
t (j| *0 bonasia, from which it differs very materially, 
ti,. -Von being of the same subgenus, and approaching 
vf er > if indeed it can be compared with any, to the 
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«t, 
«o urog alius. 
his bird is common at Hudson’s Bay throughout 
tL year, there frequenting plains and low grounds, 
tu: >U oh in other parts of America it is found on moun- 
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even of great elevation. It inhabits Canada in 
4 u 7 e l - , and was seen by Vieillot in great numbers 
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the month of October, in Nova Scotia. Lewis 
^ Clark met with it on the elevated range of the 
tj ' ; i ,v Mountains, and brought back from their western 
ili'fhtion a male specimen, now deposited in the Phila- 
H (1 pia Museum, where it has been long exhibited 
(,L - 1 ' the name of Louisiana grouse. This, as truly 
ij^Ved by Say, lirst entitled it to rank among the 
(f s of the United States. But the Rocky Mountains 
' v li , Uot hl le only region of the United States territory 
the spotted grouse is found. We have traced it 
certainty as a winter visitant of the northern 
jj^einity of Maine, Michigan, and even of the state of 
q 1L| York, where, though very rare, it is found in the 
HL^les of Lewis and Jefferson. On the frontiers of 
If j e it is abundant, and has been seen by Professor 
i (1] ,| l(; s, of the Gardiner Lyceum, near Lake Umbagog 
Iq, others. In these countries, the spotted grouse is 
l)a r !'^ n by the various names of wood partridge, swamp 
An. • £ e » cedar partridge, and spruce partridge. The 
I H xj'.'can settlers of Canada distinguish it by the first. 
S^mohigan and New York, it goes generally by the 
° tKl . I a Maine it bears the third, and in other parts 
