Identifier: birdsofnewenglan00sam (find matches)
Title: The birds of New Englandand adjacent states: containing descriptions of the birds of New England ... together with a history of their habitats ... ; with illustrations of many species of the birds, and accurate figures of their eggs
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward Augustus, 1836-1908
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: Boston : Noyes, Holmes
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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feathers with stiflened shafts; tarsus feathered to andbetween the bases of the toes; no unusual feathers on the side of throat; culmenbetween the nasal foss.se nearly half the total length; color mostly black.Inhabit wooded regions. TETRAO CANADENSIS.-XiHHteus. The Canada Grouse; Spruce Partridge. Tetrao Canadensis, Unnxiis. Syst. Nat, L (1766) 274. Nutt., Man. L (1832)667. Aud. Cm. Biog., II. (1834) 437; V. (1839) 563. Desckiption. Tail of sixteen feathers; feathers above distinctly banded with plumbeous;beneath uniform black, with a pectoral band of white, and white on the sides of thebelly; chin and throat above black; tail with a broad brownish-orange terminalband. Prevailing color in the male black; each fcither of the head, neck, and upperparts generally, 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
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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 white 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 band; 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 bands, the outer edges only mottled with grayish; thetail f

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