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TETRAO UMBELLUS. 
is peculiarly white, tender, and delicate, unequalled, in 
these qualities, by that of any other of its genus in the 
United States. 
The quail, as it is called in New England, or the 
partridge, as in Pennsylvania, is nine inches long, and 
fourteen inches in extent ; the hill is black ; line over 
the eye, down the neck, and whole chin, pure white, 
hounded by a band of black, which descends and spreads 
broadly over the throat ; the eye is dark hazel ; crown, 
neck, and upper part of the breast, red brown ; sides of 
the neck, spotted with white and black on a reddish 
brown ground ; back, scapulars, and lesser coverts, red 
brown, intermixed with ash, and sprinkled with black ; 
tertials, edged with yellowish white ; wings, plain 
dusky ; lower part of the breast and belly, pale yellowish 
white, beautifully marked with numerous curving 
spots or arrow-heads of black ; tail, ash, sprinkled with 
reddish brown ; legs, very pale ash. 
The female differs in having the chin and sides of 
the head yellowish brown, in which dress it has been 
described as a different kind. There is, however, only 
one species of quail at present known within the 
United States. 
GENUS XXXVIII. — TETRAO, Linneus. 
SUBGENUS I. BON ASIA, BONAPARTE. 
191. TETRAO UMBELLUS , LINN^US AND WILSON. 
RUFFED GROUSE. 
WILSON, PLATE. XLIX. — EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
This is the partridge of the Eastern States, and the 
pheasant of Pennsylvania and the southern districts. 
This elegant species is well known in almost every 
quarter of the United States, and appears to inhabit 
a very extensive range of country. It is common at 
Moose Fort, on Hudson’s Bay, in lat. 51°; is frequent 
in the upper parts of Georgia ; very abundant in 
Kentucky and the Indiana territory; and was found 
