. The birds of New England and adjacent states : containing descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature ... with illustrations of many species of the birds, accurate figures of their nests and eggs . -, having its surface waved with plumbeous-gray; this is in theform of two or three well-defined concentric bars, parallel to each other, one alongthe exterior edge of the feather, the others behind it; the sides of the body, the. THE CANADA GROUSE. 379 scapulars, and outer surface of the wings are mottle
. The birds of New England and adjacent states : containing descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature ... with illustrations of many species of the birds, accurate figures of their nests and eggs . -, having its surface waved with plumbeous-gray; this is in theform of two or three well-defined concentric bars, parallel to each other, one alongthe exterior edge of the feather, the others behind it; the sides of the body, the. THE CANADA GROUSE. 379 scapulars, and outer surface of the wings are mottled like the back, but more irregu-larly, and with a browner shade of gray, the feathers with a central white streakexpanding towards the tip (on the wing these streaks seen only on some of thegreater coverts); there is no wliite above, except as described; the under partsare mostly uniform black, the feathers of the sides of the belly and breast broadlytipped with white, which sometimes forms a pectoral bund; there is a white baracross the feathers, at the base of the upper mandible, usually interrupted above;a white spot on the lower eyelid, and a white line beginning on the cheeks, andrunning into a series of white spots in the feathers of the throat; the lower feathersof this are banded terminally with whitish; the feathers at the base of the bill,and the head, below the eyes and beneath, are pure-black; the quills are dark-brown, without any spots or bauds, the outer edges only mottled with j^rayish; thetail
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