Plate CLXXVI. Male and Female.
Tail of sixteen feathers, rounded. Male with the upper parts
transversely banded with brownish-black and light grey; wings
variegated with dusky and greyish-yellow; quills brown, the outer webs
of the primaries mottled with yellowish; tail blackish-brown, tipped
with a band of reddish-yellow; lower parts black; the feathers on the
throat with a white spot near the end; a band of white spots behind
the eye; on the breast, the feathers with a broad subterminal spot;
and the lower tail-coverts largely tipped with white. Female with the
upper parts as in the male, but more broadly barred; head, sides of
neck, fore neck, and anterior part of breast, yellowish-red, barred
with brownish-black; lower parts greyish-black, barred with
reddish-white; tail minutely mottled, and tipped with reddish-brown.
_Male_, 15-3/4, 21-3/4. _Female_, 15-1/2, 21.
Plentiful from the northern parts of New York to Labrador, as well as
from Canada to the Arctic Sea. Columbia River. Partially migratory in
winter.
Spotted Grouse, Tetrao canadensis, Bonap. Amer. Orn. v. iii.
pl. 20.
Tetrao canadensis, Bonap. Syn. p. 127.
Tetrao canadensis, Spotted Grouse, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor.
Amer. v. ii. p. 346.
Tetrao Franklinii, Franklin's Grouse, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor.
Amer. v. ii. p. 348.
Spotted Grouse, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 667.
Spotted or Canada Grouse, Tetrao canadensis, Aud. Orn. Biog.
v. ii. p. 437; v. v. p. 563.