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SHARP-TAILED GROUS. 
TETRAO PHASIAJVELLUS. 
Plate XIX. 
Tetrao phasianellus , Linn. *SV/.s/. ed. 10, p. 160. Gmel. I, p. 747. Forst. 
Phil. Trans. LXII, pp. 394 and 425. Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 635, Sp. 2. Briss. 
Suppl. p. 9. Temm. Ind. Gall, in Hist. Pig. fy Gall. Ill, p. 702. Vieile. Nouv. 
Did. Hist. Nat. Sabine, Zool. App. to Frankl. Exped. p. 681. Nob. Cat. Birds 
U. S. Sp. 208. Id. Syn. Birds U. S. Sp. 209. 
Tetrao urogallus , var. p, Linn. Syst. I, p. 273, Sp. 1. 
Gelinotte a longue queue. Buff. Ois. II, p. 286. Sonn. Buff. YI, p. 72. Bonat. 
Tahl. Encyc. Orn. p. 196, PI. 91, fig. 1. 
Francolin a longue queue , Hearne, Voy. a Vocean du Nord , ( Fr. transl.) p. 386. 
Tetras phasianelle, Temm. Pig. et Gall. Ill, p. 152. 
Long-tailed Grous , Edwards, Glean. PI. 117. Lath. Syn. IY, p. 732. Id. Suppl. 
p. 21. 
Sharp-tailed Grous , Penn. Arct. Zool. Sp. 181. 
The Grous , or Prairie Hen , Lewis and Clark, Exp. II, p. 180, Sp. 1. 
Philadelphia Museum , Female. 
My Collection , Male and Female. 
This species of Grous, though long since said to inhabit 
Virginia, is in fact a recent acquisition to the Fauna of the 
United States; for it was only through an awkward mistake 
that it was ever attributed to that country. Mitchell, upon an 
inspection of Edwards’s bad drawing of this bird, mistaking it 
for the Ruffed Grous of that and the neighbouring states, declared 
it to be an inhabitant of Virginia; and upon his authority Edwards 
gave it as such. This statement however led Wilson into the 
erroneous belief of the identity of the two species, in which he 
was further confirmed, when after the most careful researches he 
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