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M anners.
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^Elack; the lad fpotted with white, except in the middle: Tides
tranfverfely barred with blackifh and grey brown, with a dafh of
white near the tips: under tail coverts black and white: tail
black, tipped with rufous: legs covered with grey brown feathers
: claws grey : toes peftinated.
The female is fmaller; in length only eleven inches and a half.
All the upper parts are eroded with rufous, blackilh, and grey
brown, forming large patches of the fame on the back : fore
part and Tides of the neck rufous, eroded with blackifh bands
near the end of each feather : bread: eroded with rufous and
blackifh, tipped with dirty rufous white: belly, and under tail
coverts, barred with blackifh and rufous whites the Tides with
brown and rufous grey, tipped with dirty white: quills as in the
male: tail barred with rufous.and black : toes peftinated.
Thefe are met with at Hudfon's Bay, where they are called
Wood or Spruce Partridges. In winter, feed on fpruce-cones and
juniper-berries. They are eaten at all times, but thought much
better in the fummer-feafon. The natives preferve them through
the winter by expofing them -to the frod, hanging "them up by
the bill, and during the whole o f the inclement feafon will keep
good, fo that they have only to lay them in water to thaw them
before their being dreded. They are eafily.got at in great num- ,
bers, as they are very dupid birds, and may be knocked on the
head with a flick; and frequently are caught by a flick and a
loop. They ditke the nefl on the ground, and lay five eggs.
When much difiurbed, often fly into trees; and if the fportfman
has a little dog with him to take off their attention, they may
■ be !hot one after another to the lad bird.
Tetrao togatus, Lin. Syji. i. p. 275. 8.
Lagroffe Gelirtote de Canada, Brif. om. i. p. 207. pi. 21. f. £— Buf. eif.u.
p. 281.— PI. a t. N” 104.
■ Shoulder-knot Grous, Phil. Tranf vol. Ixii. p. 393,
Br. Mu/. Lev. Muf.
6 I Z E of a fmall Fowl: length fifteen inches and a half. Bill
brown : the head and upper parts are varied with rufous,
brown, black, and afh-colour: throat, and fore part of the
neck, rufous, marked with fmall fpots and bands of brown :
upper part of the bread blackilh and grey, forming a band, communicating
on each fide with a packet of long and black feathers,
which falls' over each wing: the red of the under parts are
eroded with brown, rufous, and dirty white : quills brown, the
outer edge varied with dirty white: tail not unlike the back,
eroded with five or fix narrow bars of black, and a broad one
near the end; the very tips of the feathers grey: legs feathered,
grey : toes naked, brown.
Inhabits Hudfon’s Bay, and is called Pujhee, or Pupujhee, by the
natives. The flelh is rather dry, but white, and when well prepared,
is good eating.
They day all the year, and feed in the winter on juniper; but
in dimmer on goofeberries, rafpberries, cranberries, and currants,
The young follow the hen like chickens.
The male and female much alike.
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