This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ... above banded and mottled with darker; white below marked with brown especially on breast; tail with subterminal band of black, fig. 209. Female, duller with a smaller tail. Downy young, reddish buff lined, mottled, and spotted with brown, fig. 210; can fly when about a week old. Eastern U. S. south along the mountains ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ... above banded and mottled with darker; white below marked with brown especially on breast; tail with subterminal band of black, fig. 209. Female, duller with a smaller tail. Downy young, reddish buff lined, mottled, and spotted with brown, fig. 210; can fly when about a week old. Eastern U. S. south along the mountains to northern Ga. Frequents bushy woodlands. Note, a whistling chuckle when alarmed. Drums in spring, summer and autumn; this begins loud and distinct, increases in rapidity, but diminishes in volume until it dies away. 250. CANADIAN RUFFED GROUSE. Differs from last in being grayer, especially on tail. Spruce forests of northern N. E., northern N. Y., north to James Bay. 251. THAYER RUFFED GROUSE. Differs from last in being darker above and in having the under parts more heavily banded. Nova Scotia, and possibly also New Brunswick. Habits, etc., similar to last. 252. WILLOW PTARMIGAN. 15; winter, white; tail, black, fig. 211. Summer, reddish-brown spotted and banded with black; greater portion of wing, middle under parts, and feet white, fig. 212. Arctic Fig.211 Willow Ptarmigan, winter. 1-8. and Sub-arctic, in N. A. south to Sitka and British Provinces, accidental Me. and Mass. 253. ALLEN PTARMIGAN. Similar to last, primaries more or less mottled with dusky. Newfoundland. 254. ROCK PTARMIGAN. Scarcely different from 253 in winter; in summer, grayer above and more coarsely banded with black above, markings below darker. 255. REINHARDT PTARMIGAN. Differs from last in summer in being even more coarsely banded above where the black predominates. Greenland, western shores of Cumberland Gulf, and northern Labrador. Fig.212 Willow Ptarmigan. summer. 1-8. 256. WELCH PTARMIGAN. Differs from Allen Ptarmigan in being much darker above in summer and with ...
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