UPLAND SHOOTING 
71 
THE CANADA GROUSE. 
Tetrao Canadensis. Linn: Bonaparte: Audubon. Spotted 
Grouse ; Franklin's Grouse ; Spruce Partridge. 
“ Male, 15£.2l£. Female, 151.21. 
w Plentiful from the Northern parts of New York to Labra¬ 
dor, as well as from Canada to the Arctic Sea, Columbia River. 
Partially migratory in winter. 
u Adult Male. 
u Bill short, robust, slightly arched, rather obtuse; the base 
covered by feathers; upper mandible with the dorsal outline 
convex toward the end—the edges sharp and overhanging—the 
tip declinate; lower mandible slightly convex in its dorsal out¬ 
line ; the back broad and rounded; the sides sloping outward ; 
the tip rather rounded. Nostrils basal, lateral, concealed by the 
short feathers. Head small; neck of ordinary length ; body 
full. Feet short, rather small; tarsus short, roundish, feathered. 
Toes scutellate above, broadly margined and pectinate ; the an¬ 
terior ones connected by a web at the base ; the hind toe very 
small, the two lateral about equal, the middle one much longer ; 
claws short, arched, compressed, rather obtuse. 
u Plumage compact, slightly glossed. Feathers of the head 
very short. Wings short, broad, much rounded and curved, the 
third quill longest, the fourth next, the second and fifth nearly 
equal, the first very short. Tail ample, of ordinary length, 
rounded, of sixteen broad rotundate truncate* feathers, having a 
minute mucio. 
“ Bill and claws brownish black. Irisf hazle. Fringed mem¬ 
brane over the eyes, vermillion. Toes purplish gray. Upper 
plumage and flanks brownish black, transversely barred with 
brownish gray; the tip of each feather with two bars of the latr 
ter color; on the hind parts the bars are larger, and the pale 
* Truncate —Cut off short and abruptly. 
t In's—The circle about the pupil of the eye 
