SPOTTED GROUSE. 
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SPOTTED GROUSE TETRAO CANADENSIS Plate XX. Male. 
Plate XXT. Fig. 1. Female. 
Tetrao Canadensis, Linn. Sysf. i. p. 274, sp. 3. Gmel. Syst. i. p. 749, sp. 3. 
Lath. Ind. p. 637, sp. 6. Forster, in Phil. Tr. Ixii. p. 389. Temm. Ind. 
Gall, in Hist. Pig. et Gall. iii. p. 702. Vieill. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. Sa- 
bine, Zool. A.pp. Franhl. Exp. p. 683. Nob. Cat. Eirds U. S. sp. 207. Id. 
Syn. Birds U. S. sp. 208. — Tetrao canace, Linn. Sysf. i. p. 26, sp. 7, female. 
— Lagopus Bonasa Freti Hudsonis, Briss. Orn. i. p. 201, sp. 6. Id. Suppl. p. 
10. Id. 8vo, iv. p. 56, male. — 'Lagopus Bonasa Canadensis, Briss. Orn. i. p. 203, 
sp. 7, pi. 20, fig. 2. Id. 8vo, iv. p. 57, female. —Lagopus Freti Hudsonis, Klein, 
Av. p. 117, sp. 6 La Gelinotte du Canada, Buff. Ois. ii. p. 279. Id. PI. Enl. 
131, male, 132, female. Sonn. Buff. vi. p. 68. Bonat. Tabl. Enc. Orn. p. 197, 
pi. 91, fig. 2. — Tetras tacliete, ou Acalio, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. p. 160, bis. — 
Black and Spotted Heatbcock, Edw. Glean, p. 118, pi. 118, male. — Brown and 
Spotted Heatbcock, Edw. Glean, p. 71, pi. 71, female. Ellis, Hudson Bay, i. t. 
p. 50. — Spotted Grouse, Penn. Arct. Zool. sp, 182. Lath. Syn.\Y. p. 735, sp. 
6. Id. Suppl. p. 214, accid. var. — Tbe small speckled Pheasant, Lewis and 
Clark, Exp. ii. p. 182, male. — The small brown Pheasant, Id. Id. Exp. ii. p. 
1 82, female. — Philadelphia Museum, male. — My Collection, male and female. 
TETRAO LiNNiEUS.* 
Tetrao Canadensis, Spotted Grouse, North. Zool. ii. p. 346, pi. 62. Temm. 
As may be seen by tbe synonymy, two separate species have 
been made of the present, the male and female being taken for 
* In this place must be introduced the Tetrao Franklinii of Douglas, first no- 
ticed by that gentleman in the Transactions of the Lhmcean Society. It is a 
species which has been involved in confusion with the T. Canadensis, from the 
different opinions which those persons who have met with it, have formed. By 
the Prince of Musignano, and Mr Drummond, an acute observer, it is thought 
to be a variety only, while Mr Douglas, and the authors of the Northern Zoology, 
consider it distinct. 
I have added the description of the latter naturalists, and some observations on 
its habits, by Mr Douglas. I cannot decide, not having specimens of both to 
compare ; but, from the known variation of the markings of those birds, which 
will stand in the division Tetrao, a very accurate comparison, indeed, of nu- 
merous specimens, with the investigation of their habits, would be necessary, to 
distinguish those which are seemingly so nearly allied. 
