<br><p><b>Identifier</b>: handbooktogamebia01ogil (<a class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&amp;profile=default&amp;fulltext=Search&amp;search=insource%3A%2Fhandbooktogamebia01ogil%2F">find matches</a>)<br><b>Title</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidhandbooktogamebia01ogil">A hand-book to the game-birds</a><br><b>Year</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1896">1896</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1890">1890s</a>)<br><b>Authors</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorOgilvie_Grant__W__R___William_Robert___1863_1924">Ogilvie-Grant, W. R. (William Robert), 1863-1924</a><br><b>Subjects</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectGame_and_game_birds">Game and game-birds</a><br><b>Publisher</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherLondon___E__Lloyd">London : E. Lloyd</a><br><b>Contributing Library</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorAmerican_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library">American Museum of Natural History Library</a><br><b>Digitizing Sponsor</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorBiodiversity_Heritage_Library">Biodiversity Heritage Library</a><br><br><b>View Book Page</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/handbooktogamebia01ogil/handbooktogamebia01ogil#page/n101/mode/1up">Book Viewer</a><br><b>About This Book</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/handbooktogamebia01ogil">Catalog Entry</a><br><b>View All Images</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidhandbooktogamebia01ogil">All Images From Book</a><br>
Click here to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/handbooktogamebia01ogil/handbooktogamebia01ogil#page/n101/mode/1up"><b>view book online</b></a> to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.<br><br><b>Text Appearing Before Image:</b><br><i>, as manyas seventeen having been found in a nest. Colour varyingfrom olive-buff to greenish-brown, rather heavily dotted all overwith well-defined chocolate-brown spots. Average measure-ments, 2*2 inches by 1*5. THE SHARP-TAILED GROUSE. GENUS PEDICECETES. PedioccEtes, Baird, Rep. Expl. &amp; Surv. ix. pt. 2, Zool. p. 625(1858). Type, P, phasianellus (Linn.). Toes naked and pectinate along the sides. Tail rather longand wedge-shaped, composed of eighteen feathers, the middlepair being more than twice as long as the outer pair. The males are provided with an inflatable air-sac on eachside of the neck, but have no elongate neck-tufts. I. THE NORTHERN SHARP-TAILED GROUSE. PEDICECETESPHASIANELLUS. Tetraophasianellus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 273 (1766). Pedioccetes kennicotti, Suckl. P. Ac. Philad. 1861, pp. 334, 361. Pedioccetes phasianellus, Elliot, P. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 403; Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. B. p. 97, pi. iii. figs. 3-5 (1892); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 82 (1893).</i><br><b>Text Appearing After Image:</b><br><i>THE SHARP-TAILED GROUSE. 69 Fediodcelcsphasianellus^ Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, p. 8.Fedixcdtcsphasianellus^ Elliot, Monogr. Tetraon. pi. xv. (1865).(Plate VIL) Adult Male and Temalc.—Distinguished from the smaller andmore southern form, P. co/in/ibianus, by having the generalcolour above dark, the black on the upper-parts predominatingover the rufous, buff, and white markings; the feathers of thechest black, with a white heart-sliaped patch in the middleand a white fringe round the margin. Male measures: Totallength, i6-8 inches; wing, 8-4; tail, 4-6; tarsus, 1*5. Femalesomewhat smaller. Range.—Interior of British America, extending north to FortSimpson, south to Lake Winnipeg and the north shore ofLake Superior, east to Hudson Bay, and west to the RockyMountains. Habits.—The habits of this form appear to be very similar tothose of its more southern representative. It inhabits thewooded districts and borders of the tundras near the lakes. Eggs.—Seven to fourteen in number. Fawn b</i><br><br><b>Note About Images</b><br></p>
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