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Tejtrao Ehafcmellns, Lin. Syji. i, p. 273. N° I. Vari/3.
Hudfon’s Bay Pheafant Grous, Phil. T r a n f vol. lxiii. p. 39S.
Long-tailed Grous from Hudfon’s Bay, Ed-uj, pi, 117.
X? A T H E R bigger than, a Pheafant: length feventeen inches n
breadth twenty-four. Bill- black : irides hazel: head, neck',
and upper parts, teftaceous, tran-fverfely fafeiated with black ; the
bands broadeft on the back : between the bill and eyes a white
fpot: fides of the neck marked with roundilh whitilh fpots;
rump hoary : the bread: and belly whitilh, marked with cordated
fpots of a teftaceous brown, colour, deepeft on the belly : on the
wing coverts round white fpots, as well as ftripes : quills blacky
fpotted with white on the outer edge s fecondaries brown, fafeiated
on the outer edge and tip with white : tail-Short; the out-
fide feathers pale brown, tipped with white j the two middle ones
longeft by half an inch, and fpotted with teftaceous.
The male and female vary very little in colour, nor change with
the feafons. The breaft of the male is -chocolate-brown; and the
caruncle over the eye much the largeft, being one inch long, and'
three-eighths of an inch high.
Dr. Forfter is of opinion that this bird is totally different from
the Wood Grous, and that.Edwards's plate is moft probably a variety
of this fpecies, rather than the female of that -bird j the tail
being cuneiform is a true fpecific diftinftion; and befides, the
axillary feathers are not white, as- in the female of the Wood
Grous.
This is found at Hudfon’s Bay, and called by the natives O.c-
kiff-eovti
Tetrao tetrix, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 272. 2. — Faun. Suie. N° 202. — Senf. ann'. i.
N° 169.— Brun. N° 196, 197.—Muller. N° 22Z. — Frifch. pl. 109.—
Kram. el. p, 356. 2.— Georgi Reife, p. 172.
Le Coq de Bruyères à queue fourchue, B rif orn. i. p. 186.' 2.
’ 1 ou petit Tétras, Buf. oif ii. p. 210. pl. 6.— Pl. enl. 172. 173.
Black Cock, Black Game, or Black Grous, Raii Syn. p. 53. A. 2.— Will orn»
P* 173* pl* 31*"“" AlUinryA. 22. -—Br. Zbol. i. N°93. pl. 42.
Zool.
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf.
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g I Z E rather larger than a Fowl: length twenty-four inches.
The.bill is black : the-whole body is alfo of a fine glofiy blue
black: the .wing coverts dufky brown : the four firft quills
black; the next white at the bottom : the lower,half and tips-of
the fecondaries, .and the inner wing coverts,, white : thighs and
legs dark brown ; on the firft fome white fpots : the tail confifts
of fixteen black feathers; the outer ones curve outwards, and the
ends are fquare; the middle ones much ihorter, making the tail
forked : the untfer tail coverts are white ;• the legs and toes pectinated,
as in the laft fpecies.
The female differs much from the male, as in the Wood Grous-,
and is likewife much'fmaller;
This fpecies is common in all the northern parts of Great-
Britain, but efpecially in-Scotland and Wales; and fparingly.Scattered
as one advances fouth. Affefts woody and mountainous
places. Some are alfo met with in Cumberland; and they are in
tolerable plenty in the moors in Forkjhire. They are alfo exceedingly
numerous in Staffordfhire, efpecially in Lord Paget’s domains;
and in great plenty in the New Foreft of Ham-pjhire, particularly
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