_Canace_, REICHENBACH, Av. Syst. Nat. 1851. (Type, _Tetrao
canadensis_, L.)
GEN. CHAR. Tail of sixteen feathers, rounded, the feathers broad to the
end. A colored (red or yellow) “comb” of naked skin over the eye. No
inflatable air-sac on side of the neck. No crest, nor unusual plumes,
about the head or neck.
Species and Varieties.
=T. canadensis.= Above distinctly barred with plumbeous and black;
beneath black, with a white border to the throat, a white pectoral
band, and white markings on the sides. _Female_ barred with
ochraceous, gray and black above, and with orange-ochraceous and black
on the lower parts.
Tail rounded, tipped with rufous; upper tail-coverts tipped narrowly
with deep ash. _Hab._ British America, east of the Rocky Mountains,
from Alaska (Yukon region) to northern border of United States …
var. _canadensis_.
Tail nearly even, black to the tip, or else with a narrow white
terminal bar; upper tail-coverts broadly tipped with pure white.
_Hab._ Northern Rocky Mountains to the Pacific coast …
var. _franklini_.
Canace canadensis, var. canadensis, LINN.