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Title: The birds of New England and adjacent states : ... arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature ... with illustrations of many species of the birds, accurate figures of their nests and eggs
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Samuel, Edward Augustus, 1836-1908
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: Boston : Noyes, Holmes, and Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ings, whileothers are abundantly spotted. A large number of speci-mens in my collection average about 1.80 by 1.25 inch indimensions. BONASA, Stephens. Bonasa, Stephens, Shaws Gen. Zool., XI. (1819). (Type Tetrao bonasia, L.)Tail widening to the end, its feathers very broad, as long as the wings ; thefeathers soft, and eighteen in number; tarsi naked in the lower half; covered withtwo rows of hexagonal scales anteriorly, as in the Ortygirue; sides of toes stronglypectinated; naked space on the side of throat covered by a tuft of broad soft feathers;portion of culmen between the nasal fossae about one-third the total length; top ofhead with a soft crest. BONASA UMBELLUS. — Stephens.The Ruffed Grouse; Partridge; Pheasant. Tetrao umbellus, Linnaeus. Syst. Nat., I. (1766) 275. Wils. Am. Orn., VI.(1812) 46. Aud. Orn. Biog., I. (1831) 211; V. 560. Tetrao (Bonasia) umbellus, Bonaparte. Syn. (1828), 126. Nutt. Man., I. , 1832)657. Bonasa umbellus, Stephens. Shaw, Gen. Zool., XI. (1824) 300.
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THE RUFFED GROUSE. 389 Description. Tail of eighteen feathers, reddish-brown or gray above; the back with cordatespots of lighter; beneath whitish, transversely barred with dull-brown; tail tippedwith gray, and with a snbterminal bar of black; broad feathers of the ruff black. Tail lengthened, nearly as long as the wing ; very broad, and moderatelyrounded; the feathers very broad and truncate, the tip slightly convex, eighteen innumber; upper half of tarsus only feathered; bare behind and below, with tworows of hexagonal scutelhe anteriorly; a naked space on the side of the neck, con-cealed by an overhanging tuft of broad, truncate feathers; there are no pectinatedprocesses above the eye, where the skin instead is clothed with short feathers. length, eighteen inches; wing, seven and twenty one-huudredths; tail, seveninches. This beautiful and well-known bird, commonly, but veryimproperly, called Partridge, is a general resident in all theNew-England States throughout the year. In the

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