Class II. RED COCK. 



only to the feet : they both inhabit woods in the 

 winter; therefore nature hath not given them the 

 fame kind protedion againft the cold, as fhe has 

 the groLis and ptarmigan, who mufl undergo all the 

 rigor of the feafon beneath the fnow, or on the bare 

 ground. 



26g 



Gallma campeftris. Gira^. La Gclinote Hupee. Brzfon 



topogr, Hibern. 706. an;. I. 209. Hijl, d'Oys. 



Red Game, Gorcock, or n. 252. 



Moor-cock, Wil. om. lyy. La Gelinote d'Ecoffe, Bonafa 



Lagopus altera Plinii. ^«// Scotica. Mm 199. iab. zz. 



fyn. a^-v, 54. f. ,. Hift. d'Oys. \l. 242. 



Moor-cock, or Moor- fowl. 6"i<$. Br, Zool. 8c. plate M. 7 



Scot. 16. ^ ^ "*' 



94 



Re 



rpHE 



male weighs 



about nineteen 



-D— w.^... ounces. 



A The length is fifteen inches and a half: 

 the breadth twenty-fix. The bill is black: the 

 noftrils covered with red and black feathers : the 

 irides hazel colored. At the bafe of the lower 

 mandible, on each fide, is a white fpot : the throat 

 is red. The plumage on the head and neck is 

 of a light tawny red; each feather is marked with 

 feveral tranfverfe bars of black. 



The back and fcapular feathers are of a deeper 

 red, and on the middle of each feather is a lar^i-c 

 black fpot : the bread and belly are of a dull pur- 

 plilh brown, croiTed with numerous narrow duiky 

 lines : the quil feathers are duiky : the tail confids 



T3 of 



Descrip, 



