. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. TETRAONIDJE â TETRAONINJE: GROUSE. 579 ncli â lit >{ lie 2(15 aw i;a4. l'"iii. 3117. â Ciuiailii tir()ii!<t', iiiit. size. (Ad iiat. tlfl, K. C.) bolow, and orange tail-ond. Length ; wing ; tail Hon rather sinallor. No ctiiitiiiiKnis blacit licluw. wiicre white ant! tawny, hitter jiarticnh
. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. TETRAONIDJE â TETRAONINJE: GROUSE. 579 ncli â lit >{ lie 2(15 aw i;a4. l'"iii. 3117. â Ciuiailii tir()ii!<t', iiiit. size. (Ad iiat. tlfl, K. C.) bolow, and orange tail-ond. Length ; wing ; tail Hon rather sinallor. No ctiiitiiiiKnis blacit licluw. wiicre white ant! tawny, hitter jiarticnhirly on brea.«t, nearly everywhere pretty regularly wavy-harrej with blackish. , like the tnale, but browner. Knd of tail nmre narrowly orange. I'ulh'ts resemble the hen. N. Am., E. of the U. Mts., northerly, in w7. C. obseu'ra. (Lat. nhsciira, dark.) DiSKV Guot SE. Hu'K Gijoi si;. (iuoisE. I'INE Guoi'.SE. Old cock: Hack and wings blackish-brown, finely waved and vermiciilated in zigzag with slate-gray, with more or less ochrey-brown and soiiui white on the scapu- lars. F^ong feathers of the sides witli white ends and shaft stripes: other under parts line bluish-gray or light slate color, varied with white, esjiecially on the lower belly, thinks, and vent-feathers. Cheeks black : chin and throat finely speckled with black and white. Though the lateral feathers of the neck are sniootl. and simple, formiusi no decided tufts as in Ciipidoiiia or lionasii, they are somewhat enlarged, covering a nulimeutary tyiiipaniiiii: these feathers with snowy white bases and black tips. Tail brownish-black, veined and marbled with tcray, and with a broad slate-gray terminal bar: of Ht feathers, broad to their very ends, the tail a,-* a whole sligiitly rounded. Hill black; iris brown-orange ; comb over eye. Size very variable; well-grown cocks usually 20, or ii inches, sometimes up to i feet long: extent of wiiii;s about .'50 inches; wing 1) or 10; tail 7 or *>
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