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mottled ; the tail greyish-brown, becoming black toward the end, the middle 
feathers undulated like the back, and having four grey bands with a ter- 
minal white one. The sides of the head and the throat are greyish-white, 
undulatingly barred with brown ; the general colour of the fore-neck is 
greyish-brown, with pale sienna bands ; on the breast the colour is brown- 
ish-grey, and the colours and markings of the rest of the under parts are 
as in the male, but paler. 
Length to end of tail, 19i inches ; wing from flexure, 9 ; tail, 6^ ; bill 
along the ridge, }f . 
In a specimen in my possession, killed by Mr. Townsend on the “ Colum- 
bia river, Sept. 26, 1834,” the tail is considerably rounded, the lateral 
feathers being 7 twelfths shorter than the longest remaining, the middle 
feathers being lost.. The tail is deep black, with a terminal band of ash 
grey, half an inch in breadth. It is therefore probable, that when the tail 
is unworn, it is distinctly rounded, and tipped with grey. 
THE PINNATED GROUSE. 
Tetrao cupido, Linn. 
PLATE CCXCVI. — Males and Female. 
It has been my good fortune to study the habits of this species of Grouse, 
at a period when, in the district in which I resided, few other birds of any 
kind were more abundant. I allude to the lower parts of the States of 
Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. Twenty-live years and more 
have elapsed since many of the notes to which I now recur were written, 
and at that period I little imagined that the observations which I recorded 
should ever be read by any other individuals than those composing my own 
family, all of whom participated in my admiration of the works of Nature. 
The Barrens of Kentucky are by no means so sterile as they have some- 
times been represented. Their local appellation, however, had so much 
deceived me, before I travelled over them, that I expected to find nothing 
but an undulated extent of rocky ground, destitute of vegetation, and 
perforated by numberless caverns. My ideas were soon corrected. I saw 
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