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Cock Of The Plains
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see grouse.
More on Cock Of The Plains
Grouse - common name for a game bird of the colder parts of the Northern Hemisphere. There are about 18 species.
COCK OF THE PLAINS, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 666.
COCK OF THE PLAINS, Tetrao urophasianellus, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. iv.p. 503.
Male, 30, 36. Female, 22.
Either or both species of sage-grouse has also been called the northern sage-grouse, western sage-grouse, cock of the plains, sage cock, sage hen, sage chicken, sage fowl, spiny-tailed pheasant, and spine-tail grouse.
 See also: Grouse, Pheasant, Sage Grouse, Ruffed Grouse, Knot
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