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SPOTTED GROUS. 
TETRAO CAJVADEJVSIS. 
Plate XX. Male. Plate XXI. Fig. 1, Female. 
Tetrao canadensis, Linn. Syst. I, p. 274, Sp. 3. Gmel. Syst. I, p. 749, Sp. 3. 
Lath. Ind. p. 637, Sp. 6. Forster, in Phil Tr. LXII, p. 389. Temm. Ind. Gall 
in Hist. Pig. et Gall III, p. 702. Yieill. Nouv. Did. Hist. Nat. Sabine, Zool. 
App. Frankl. Exp. p. 683. Nob. Cat. Birds U. S. Sp. 207. Id. Syn. Birds U. S. 
Sp. 208. 
Tetrao canace, Linn. Syst. I, p. 25, Sp. 7, Female. 
Lagopus Bonasa Freti Hudsonis , Briss. Orn. I, p. 201, Sp. 6. Id. Suppl. p. 10. Id. 
8vo. IY, 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, Ac. p. 117, Sp. 6. 
La Gelinotte du Canada, Buff. Ois. II, p. 279. Id. PI. enl. 131, Male, 132, Female. 
Sonn. Buff. YI, p. 58. Bonat. Tabl. Enc. Orn. p. 197, PI. 91, fig. 2. 
Tetras tachete, ou Acaho , Temm. Pig. et Gall. Ill, p. 160, bis. 
Black and Spotted Heathcock, Edw. Glean, p. 118, PI. 118, Male. 
Brown and Spotted Heathcock, Edw. Glean, p. 71, PI. 71, Female. Ellis, Hudson 
Bay, I, t. p. 50. 
Spotted Grous, Penn. Ard. Zool. Sp. 182. Lath. Syn. IY, p. 735, Sp. 6. Id. Suppl. 
p. 214, accid. var. 
The small speckled Pheasant, Lewis and Clark, Exp. II, p. 182, Male. 
The small brown Pheasant, Id. Id. Exp. II, p. 182, Female. 
Philadelphia Museum, Male. 
My Collection, Male and Female. 
As may be seen by the synonymy, two separate species have 
been made of the present, the male and female being taken for 
different birds. This error, which originated with Edwards and 
Brisson, from whom it was copied by Linne, was rectified by Buffon, 
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