. Die gallinaceous Wildvögel Nordamerikas, einschließlich der Rebhühner, Birkhühner, Schneehuhn und wilde Puten. Schilf. Es ist liebend, zu dichten Gestrüppen und Unterholz zurückzugreifen, das so üppig entlang den Berghängen blüht, und an den Ufern von Bächen, zuweilen zu den erhabensten Höhen aufsteigendund mit dieser 10,000 Fuß Höhe erfüllt worden ist. Seine Gewohnheiten sind ähnlich wie die seiner Verwandten, und das Nest und die Eier ähneln denen der bereits beschriebenen Art. Sie unterscheidet sich vom anderen Grouse der östlichen Portionder Vereinigten Staaten und Kanadas durch das einheitliche Grau der Grundfarbe

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. The gallinaceous game birds of North America, including the partridges, grouse, ptarmigan, and wild turkeys . reeds. It is fond of resorting to dense thickets andundergrowth that flourishes so luxuriantly along themountain sides, and on the banks of streams, ascendingat times to the loftiest heights, having been met withat 10, 000 feet of elevation. Its habits are similar to thoseof its relatives, and the nest and eggs resemble those ofthe species already described. It differs from the other Grouse of the Eastern portionof the United States and Canada by the uniform gray ofthe ground-color of its plumage and by its gray tail.When writing my monograph of the Grouse I thoughtthat a good character consisted in the fact that the termi-nal black bar on the tail did not include the middlefeathers, but the presence of more abundant materialthan was then obtainable proves that this suppositionwas not well founded. At best it is only a race of veryquestionable value. This bird was found abundant inthe vicinity of Behring Straits at the head of NortonSound wherever the woods occurred. It is common at 88. 17. Gray Ruffed Grouse. G/^AV RUFFED GROUSE. 89 various points on the Yukon, and feeds upon the sprucebuds, which give a disagreeable flavor to the flesh. BO NASA UMBELL US UMBELLOIDES. Geographical Distribution.—Rocky Mountain Region fromColorado, through Western Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Brit-ish Columbia to the Yukon in Alaska. Adult Male.—Upper parts, mostly gray, some chestnut andblack markings upon the neck, upper back, and wings; pale grayspots upon rump, all the feathers vermiculated with black; necktufts, black, with metallic green reflections; under parts, whiteand buff mixed, especially so upon the chest, crossed with brownbars, changing to black on the flanks; under tail-coverts, gray, mottled with black and tipped with white; tail, pure gray, nar-rowly barred and mottled with black, and a subterminal blackband. Total length about 14I inches; wing, 7^; tail