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TETRAO PHASIANELLUS. 
the back and rump are black, transversely varied on 
the margin and at tip, with pale bright rusty, sprinkled 
with black, forming a confused mixture of black and 
rusty on the whole upper parts of the bird ; the long 
loose-webbed upper tail-coverts being similar, but 
decidedly and almost regularly banded with black, and 
sprinkled with rusty, this colour being there much 
lighter and approaching to white, and even constituting 
the ground colour. The breast is brown, approaching 
to chocolate, each feather being terminated by a white 
fringe, with a large arrow-shaped spot of that colour on 
the middle of each feather, so that, when the plumage 
lies close, the feathers appear white with black crescents, 
and are generally described so. On the lower portion 
of the breast, the white spots, as they descend, become 
longer and narrower, the branches forming the angle, 
coming closer and closer to each other, till the spot 
becomes a mere white streak along the shaft, but, at 
the same time, the white marginal fringe widens so 
considerably, that the feathers of the belly may be 
properly called white, being brown only at their base, 
but the shaft is white even there, with no more than a 
brown heart-shaped spot visible on the middle. The 
heart-shaped brown spots of the belly become so very 
small at the vent, that this part appears pure white, 
with a few very small blackish spots; the long flank 
feathers are broadly banded with black and white, 
somewhat tinged with ochrous exteriorly; the under 
tail-coverts are white, blackish along the shafts, 
and more or less varied with black in different speci- 
mens, which also vary considerably as to the size and 
shape of all the spots, being in some more acute, in 
others more rounded, &c< The wings are eight inches 
long, the third and fourth primaries being the longest; 
the scapulars are uniform with the back, but, besides 
the rusty sprinkling of the margins and tip, the largest 
have narrow bandlike spots of a pure bright rufous, a 
slight whitish streak along the shaft in the centre, and 
a large white spot at the end. The smaller wing-coverts 
are plain chocolate brown ; the spurious wing, and 
