THE SPOTTED OR CANADA GROUSE. 
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terminate in a blunt nipple-like point; their inner surface has 7 longitudinal 
ridges, and they are filled with a pultaceous mass. The width of the 
duocfenum is 5i twelfths : that of the greater part of the rest of the intes- 
tine 6 twelfths ; the cloaca, k, is not enlarged. 
The trachea is 6 inches long, rather slender, its breadth at the top 3 
twelfths, at the lower part 2| twelfths. The rings are feeble and unossified, 
100 in number. There are no inferior laryngeal muscles. The bronchi are 
very short, rather wide, of about 12 half rings. The lateral muscles are 
rather large, the sterno-tracheal slips moderate. 
THE SPOTTED OK CANADA GROUSE. 
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Tetrao canadensis, Linn. 
PLATE CCXCIY. — Males and Females. 
No sooner had I entered the State of Maine, than I considered the Canada 
Grouse as one of the principal objects of my inquiry. Every person to 
whom I spoke about it, assured me that it was rather abundant during the 
whole year, and consequently that it bred in the country. All this 
fortunately proved to be quite true, but no one told me of the difficulties I 
should have to encounter in watching its habits ; and although I ultimately 
succeeded in this, the task was perhaps as severe as any which I ever 
undertook. 
In August, 1832, I readied the delightful little village of Dennisville, 
about eighteen miles distant from Eastport. There I had the good fortune 
of becoming an inmate of the kind and most hospitable family of Judge 
Lincoln, who has resided there for nearly half a century, and who is 
blessed with a family of sons equal to any with whom I am acquainted, for 
talents, perseverance, and industry. Each of these had his own peculiar 
avocation, and I naturally attached myself more particularly to one who 
ever since his childhood has manifested a decided preference for ornitholo- 
gical pursuits. This young gentleman, Thomas Lincoln, offered to lead 
me to those retired woods where the Spruce Partridges were to be found. 
We accordingly set out on the 27th of August, my two sons accompanying 
us. Thomas, being a perfect woodsman, advanced a* our head, and I car 
