. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and Lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds . er, contrastwith the fine gray and brown mottling of the upper parts. Wing-coverts and inner quillswith whitish spots. Several inner tail-feathers with whitish shaft lines, and mot
. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and Lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds . er, contrastwith the fine gray and brown mottling of the upper parts. Wing-coverts and inner quillswith whitish spots. Several inner tail-feathers with whitish shaft lines, and mottled withblackish and brown. Lower throat and breast with numerous dark brown spots; sidessimilar, the markings lengthening into streaks. Bill brown above, pale below. This laststill the September moult is completed. Chicks hatch dingy yellow, mottled on the crown,back, and wings with brown and black. The Pin-tail Chicken inhabits the western portions ofMinnesota, a small part of Iowa, all of Dakota, thence diagonally across Nebraska and Kansasto Colorado in the Laramie and upper Platte regions; thence westward in suitable country tothe Sierra Nevada and Cascade Eanges; northern limit to be conventionally established ahmgthe N. border of the U. S., beyond which it shades into the true phasianellus. In fine, this isthe prairie chicken of the whole Northwest; usually occurring where C. cupido does not, the two. Fig. 398.—Head of Sharp-tailed Grouse, nat. size. (Adnat. del. E. C.) TETBAONID^ — TETBAONIN^: GROUSE. 683
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