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white-flesher 
n. a partridge-like game bird, Bonasa umbellus, occurring in many subspecies across Canada.
See also: ruffed grouse
- 1827 (1914) [I] killed a pair of White Fleshers and a hen of a different species.
- 1857 (1863) This afternoon we shot several of the ruffed grouse, which is called here the white flesher; its meat being as white as the breast of a fowl, while that of all the other grouse in the country is dark.
- 1956 Ruffed grouse [is also called] . . . white-flesher ("Keewatin," B.C.). . . .
- 1827 (1914) [I] killed a pair of White Fleshers and a hen of a different species.