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TETRAO TETRIX. THE BLACK GROUSE. 



BLACK GAME. BLACK GROUSE, BLACK COCK, COILACH DUBH,— THE MALE. 

 GREY or BROWN HEN, CEARC LL\TH,— THE FEMALE. 



Tetrao Tetrix. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 272. 



Tetrao Tetrix. Lath. Ind. Orn. IL 635. 



Black Grouse. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Tetras Birkhan. Tetrao Tetrix. Temm. Man. d'Orn. IL 460. 



Black Grouse. Tetrao TetrLx. Selb. Illustr. I. 423. 



Tetrao Tetrix. Black Grouse. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 169. 



Male with the tail much forked^ the four lateral feathers on 

 each side elongated and curted outwards ; the general colour of 

 the plumage hlacJc, the neck and hack glossed with deep blue ; the 

 lower wing-coterts^ lower tail-coverts^ and bases of the secondary 

 quills^ white. Female icith the tail slightly forked, its lateral 

 feathers straight ; the general colour yellowish-red, spotted and 

 undulated with brownish-black. 



Male. — The Black Grouse is one of the most beautiful, and 

 in several respects one of the most remarkable, of our native 

 birds. Its form is robust and rather heavv, and, althouofh a 



