. 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. TETRAONIDiE, GltOUSE, PARTllIDGES. GEN. 179, 180. 233 Visually some tawny, especially on the wings; quills vai-icgatecl with tawny; tail with a terminal orange-brown band, its upper coverts plain; 15-17; wing 7 ; tail 5 ; 9 rather less, no con- tinuous black below, but variegated with blackish, white and tawny; above, much as in the ^ , but mor
. 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. TETRAONIDiE, GltOUSE, PARTllIDGES. GEN. 179, 180. 233 Visually some tawny, especially on the wings; quills vai-icgatecl with tawny; tail with a terminal orange-brown band, its upper coverts plain; 15-17; wing 7 ; tail 5 ; 9 rather less, no con- tinuous black below, but variegated with blackish, white and tawny; above, much as in the ^ , but more tawny. N. Am., northerly; in Brit. Am., W. to Alaska; in U. S., W. to Rocky Mts. ; S. into the northern tier of states; Maine, and casually to Massachusetts. NuTT., i, 667; Aud., v, 83, pi. 294; Bd., 622 CANADENSIS. Ci- Var. FEANKLIMI. Tail less rounded, Canada Grouse. lacking the terminal orange-brown band, and its upper coverts conspicuously white-tipped. liock}^ and Cascade Mts., U. S. Bd., C23; Coop., 529. **Tail normally of 20 (18-22?) feathers. {Dendrarjapns.) \'^ i DtisJci/ Grouse. ^ blackish, more or less variegated with slate-gray, or a peculiar slat^'-black; throat and sides marked with vidiite; breast black; belly slate ; tail clouded with slate and black, and with a broad terminal slate bar ; 18-20 ; wing 9-10 ; tail 7-8 ; ? smaller, not particularly different in color, but not so uniformly dark, having ochrey or reddish-brown variega- tion in places. Rocky and other Mountains, U. S. to the Pacific. Nutt., i, 666; Aud., V, 89, pi. 295; Bd., 620; Coop., 526. . obscueus. U, Var. RiCHARDSONii. Tail nearly square, entirely black, or with only a slight slate tipping. Central Rockjr Mountains and northward. Coop., 582. 179. Genus CENTROCERCUS Swainson. ') {! ^' Sage Ooclc. Code of the Plains. Tail very long, ecpialling or exceeding the wings, of twenty stilfened, graduated, narrowly acuminate feathers; sides of lower neck AVith a patch of peculiar sharp scaly fe
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