RUFFED GROUSE. 
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near three inches in length : the black on the back is not quite 
so intense ; and the sides under the wings are slightly barred 
with dusky. 
The young Woodcocks of a week or ten days old are 
covered with down of a brownish white colour, and are marked 
from the bill along the crown to the hind head, with a broad 
stripe of deep brown ; another line of the same passes through 
the «yes to the hindhead, curving under the eye ; from the 
back to the rudiments of the tail, runs another of the same 
tint, and also on the sides under the wings ; the throat and 
breast are considerably tinged with rufous ; and the quills at 
this age are just bursting from their light blue sheaths, and 
appear marbled, as in the old birds ; the legs and bill are of a 
pale purplish ash colour, the latter about an inch long. When 
taken, they utter a long, clear, but feeble peep , not louder 
than that of a mouse. They are far inferior to young Par- 
tridges in running and skulking ; and, should the female 
unfortunately be killed, may easily be taken on the spot. 
RUFFED GROUSE — TETRAO UMBELLUS Plate XLIX. 
Arct. Zool. p. 301, No. 179 — Ruffed Heathcock, or Gi’ouse, Edw. 248. — La gelinote 
huppee de Pennsylvanie, Briss. i. 214. Pl. enl. 104. — Buff. ii. 281. — Phil. 
Trans. 62, 393. — Turt. Syst. 454 — Peale's Museum , No. 4702. 
BON ASIA UMBELL US.— Bonaparte. * 
Tetrao umbellus, Temm. Pig. et Gall. Ind. p. 704 Tetrao hurpecal, Temm. Pig. 
et Gall. iii. p. 161 Bonasia umbellus, Steph. Cont. Sh. Zool. xi. p. 300 
Bonasia umbellus, Bonap. Synop. p. 126. — The Ruffed Grouse, Aud. Orn. Biog. 
i. p. 211, pl. 41, male and female. 
This is the Partridge of the eastern states, and the Phea- 
sant of Pennsylvania and the southern districts. It is repre- 
sented in the plate of its full size, and was faithfully copied 
from a perfect and very beautiful specimen. 
This elegant species is well known in almost every quarter 
* Bonasia is a sub-genus, formed by the Prince of Musignano, for the 
reception of this bird. The distinctions are, the unplumed tarsi and toes, con- 
trasted with Tetrao , where the former are thickly clothed. — Ed. 
