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V ar. A.
SPURIOUS GR.
Spurious Grous, Gen. Syn. iv. p. ’7$\.— Arft.Zool. ii. p. 314, B.
Tetrao hybridus, Sparrm. Mu/. Carl/, pi. 15.
6. SPOTTED GR.
Description.
W l have been hitherto much in the dark concerning this bird.
Dr. Sparrman, to our prefent obfcure knowledge o f it, adds
the following obfervations:— That it is of the fize o f the female
Great or Wood Grous, and fuppofed to have been produced
from that bird and the male Black Grous : that it varies greatly in
colour, fcarce two being found exa&ly correfponding ; and that
it is a remarkably ftupid bird. Its note refembles moft that o f
the Wood Grous, but louder, harlher, and every way more dif-
agreeable. This gentleman likewife remarks, that the birds hitherto
met with, whether affociating with the male birds or females,
are ever o f the male fex. This fpecies is not uncommon in the
woods o f Sweden and Finland.
Mr. Tunftall informs me, that he was told by fome old Scotch
gentlemen, that both the Wood Grous, as well as the Spurious
Grous, were extant in Scotland within their memory.
Spotted Grous, Gen. Syn. v. p. 735. N° 6.
M R. Hutchins has lately added to my colle&ion a moft beautiful
variety o f this bird. Length fixteen inches. General colour
o f the plumage ferruginous cream-colour, marbled and ftriated
acrofs with brown and yellow clay-colour : fore part of the neck
and breaft moft inclined to yellow: under parts of the body
white, marked with broken bars o f cinereous brawn : quills plain
brownilh cream-colour: tail yellowilh brown, prettily mottled
with darker; the tips of all the feathers ferruginous, but pale.
Ruffed
Ruffed Grous, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 738, N° 8.— Ar£t. Zool. ii. N° 179.
Shoulder-knot Grous, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 737. N° 7.
'V^/'E beg leave here to retradl our opinion o f the Ruffed and
Shoulder-knot Grous being of different fpecies. Mr. Pennant’s
obfervations on this head have their due weight with us,
and are fupported by our having lately received fpecimens of
both o f them by. the affiftance of Mr. Hutchins.
We have been informed, that both fexes vary much at different
ftages o f life. The ground-colour o f the plumage is not unlike
in both fexes but the tail in both is exaftly ilmilar. The male.
only has the ruff and creft, which the female has no traces o f ; in .
return, the female only has, the black at the bafe o f the wing or
ihoulder,.
Namaqua Grous, Gen.Syn, iv. p. 750. N M j . .
T A R . Sparrman* mentions his having met with two fpecies of
Tetrao, near the Hottentots' Holland’s warm bath, both o f the
fize of our Partridge-, one o f them called a Partridge, the other
a Pheafant. He obferves, that they live in flocks, and are not
difficult to come at, efpecially of mornings and evenings, at which
time they difcover their abode by a fhrill kiirring noife. One o f '
thefe fpecies is moft probably the Namaqua Grous; the other, for
want o f defcription, cannot be determined.
* Voy, i. p. IJ3V
ibod.
8.
RUFFED GR.
15.
NAMAQUA -
, . GR.