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Title: Commissioners' report
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Ontario. Game and fish commission Wright, Robert Ramsay, 1852-1933
Subjects: Game and game-birds Game protection Fisheries Fishes
Publisher: Toronto, Printed by Warwick & sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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orbital region brownish gray or dull brownish, chin and throatwhite, remainder of head and neck including jugulum and breast, light cinnamon ;flanks and sides dark brownish or blackish dusky barred with white, the whitebars averaging about 10-15 of an inch in width, the interspaces more thantwice as wide ; crissum mixed dusky and white ; abdomen lighter than the breast;back generally umber brown with darker stripes down the middle of each feather ;lower mandible and edges of upper brownish yellow, ridge of upper and tipsof both deep brown ; iris, bright red; feet yellowish brown tinged with olive,claws of the same colour. Total length 17 inches. Habitat.—Fresh water marshes of the eastern States and southern Ontario. This bird is considered by sportsmen generally as quite equal for the tableto the Sora Rail, besides being much larger. It is not so plentiful, but has thesame habits, living in thick marshes and rarely taking to wing. It feeds oninsects, crayfish, tadpoles, seeds, etc.
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&q rt w 4.03 FAMILY, TETR^CNID^.—THE GROUSE. The Tetraonidse are characterised among gallinaceous birds by their denselyfeathered tarsi and by the feathers of the nasal groove which fill it and concealthe nostrils. The toes are usually naked (feathered to the claws in the Ptarmi-gans), and with pectinations of scales along the edges. The orbital region isgenerally bare with a naked stripe above the upper eyelid ; some have an inflatableair sac on the side of the neck. The species of Tetrao and Bonasa inhabit wooded regions ; Lagopus belongs tothe Arctic portions of the continent and generally become white in the winter. In.Ontario we have the following members of this family. Richardsons Dusky Grouse.Spruce Partridge, Canada Grouse.Ruffed Grouse.Sharp tailed Grouse.Willow Ptarmigan,Rock Ptarmigan, 404 CAANCE OBSCURUS, VAR. RICHARDONII (Douglas).RICHARDSONS DUSKY GROUSE. Specific Character.—Back and wings blackish brown crossed with wavylines of slaty gray, mixed with yellowish

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