. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 234 TETEAONID^, GROUSE, PARTEIDGES. GEN. 181. !j ^ Northern Sharp-tailed Grou&e. The markings black, white and dark brown, with little or no tawny ; spots on the under i^arts numerous, blackish, V-shaped; throat white, speckled. Arctic America; not S. to the U. S. Tetrvo j)7iastaneUus Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 160; Elliot, Proc. Phila. Acad. 186
. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 234 TETEAONID^, GROUSE, PARTEIDGES. GEN. 181. !j ^ Northern Sharp-tailed Grou&e. The markings black, white and dark brown, with little or no tawny ; spots on the under i^arts numerous, blackish, V-shaped; throat white, speckled. Arctic America; not S. to the U. S. Tetrvo j)7iastaneUus Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 160; Elliot, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1862, 403. P. Icennicotlii Suckley, ibid. 1861, 361. phasianellus. Ql/ Var. COLCMBIANUS. Common Sharp-tailed Grouse. The markings black, white, and especially tawny ; below, the spots fewer, brown, U-shaped; throat buff. T. plMsianellvs Nutt., i, 669 ; Aro., v, 110, pi. 298. Bd., 626. P. columbianus Elliot, I. c.; Coop., 532. This is the ordinary U. S. bird, abundant on the prairies from Wisconsin and Kansas westward. It is accurately discriminated from the dark northern form by Dr. Sucklej' and Mr. EUiot, who, however, incorrectly suppose that the two forms are distinct species; they are geographical races differing from each other according to well known laws of climatic vai'iation. c ii 181. Genus CUPIDONIA Reiehenbaeh. 0 Pinnated Grouse. Prairie Hen. Neck with a peculiar tuft of loose, lengthened, acuminate feathers, beneath which is a patch of bare, brightly colored skin, capable of great distension ; tail short, rounded, of eighteen stitEsh, not acuminate, feathers; tarsi barelj^ feathered to the toes. Length 16-18; wing 8-9; tail about 5. Above, variegated with black, brown, tawny or ochre}% and white, the hitter especially on the wings ; below, pretty regularly barred with dark brown, white and tawny; throat tawny, a little speckled, or not; vent and crissum mostly white ; quills fuscous, with white spots on the outer webs ; tail fuscous, with narrow or imperfect white or
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