HAZEL GR.
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Tetrao bonafia, -Lit. Syf. i. p. 275. g.— Faun. Suee. N° 170.— Stop. ann. i.
N° 173.— Bran. p. 59.—Muller, 224.— Kram. el. p. 356. /[.— Georgi
Reife, p. 175.
La Gelinote, Brif. orn. i. p. 191. $.— Buf. oif. ii. p. 233. pi. j .— P l. enl.
474. (the male.) 475. (the female).
Hazelhun (Attagen of Gefner) Rail Syn. p.55. 6.—Will. orn. p. 175. pi. 31.
— Ar£f, Zoo l.
Lev. Mu/.
g I Z E of the Guernfey Partridge: length fourteen inches.
The bill is lhort and black: round the eyes bare, wrinkled,
and of a deep crimfon : the head a trifle crefted : the upper
parts of the head, nedk, and body, are tranfverfely ftriated
with rufous brown and afh-colour, inclining moft to the laft at
the lower part of the back and rump : the feathers at the bafe
of the upper mandible black: on each fide of the noftrils a finall
white (pot j between the bill and eye another ; and a third behind
each eye : the chin and throat are black, furrounded by white:
the fore part of the neck rufous grey, banded with black : belly
and thighs more inclined to alh-colour, marked with crefcents of
black; towards the vent pale grey: the wing coverts are marbled
with rufous, powdered with brown, and mixed with black’ with
here and there a white dafh: quills grey brown within, at
the tips rufous : tail compofed of fixteen feathers j the two
middle ones like the back; all the others grey, marbled with
brown, and marked with a broad bar of black near the tip : legs
and claws grey; the Ihins feathered on the fore part for half
their length.
The
The female differs in wanting the black chin and throkt, and
having the bare carunculated part about the eyes lefs in fize, and
not of fo fine a red.
This fpecies inhabits the woods of Germany *, particularly
thofe at the foot of the Alps, and the high mountains in Silefia,
Poland, & c .: they are alfo~ in numbers in the environs of Nuremberg
; and in fuch plenty in a fmall ijland in the gulf of
Genoa, that the name of Gelinotte Ijland has been given to it.
Linnaus ranks it among his Swedijh birds, and both Muller
and Brunnich. mention its-being found in their countries. It is
alfo frequent in feveral parts of Rujfia, though lefs plenty than
fome others of the genus : it grows fcarcer in Sibiria, efpecially
towards the eaftern part.
The female generally lays her eggs, which are bigger than thole
of a Pigeon, in number from twelve to fifteen, or more, on the
ground, at the foot of a Hazel, or great Mountain Fern, and
fits three weeks, but feldom produces more than feven or eight
Chickens -f-, which run as foon as hatched. They frequently
perch on trees, but only on the loweft branches neareft the
body.
Their food confifts of various berries and fruits, chiefly the catkins
of the hazel and birch ; and, in defect of thefe, on berries and
tops of juniper, buds of birch J, firs, and other evergreens: when
kept confined, will eat grain. The flelh is much efteemed, and
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* Common about Vienna, and much efteemed.—Brown. Trav. p. 154. 4 The Bonajia is mentioned as bringing only two young, the one male, the
other female, and that it is found in the mountains of Forex.— HiJI. de Lyons, i.
■ p. 220.
% Chiefly the dwarf birch.— Amcen, ac. i. p. 349,
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