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TETEAONIB^. 



1st primary much shorter than the 2nd and about equal to the 

 8th, the 4th slightly the longest. 



Tarsi feathered ; toes naked, pectinated on the sides ; tarsi shelter 

 than the middle toe and claw. 



Axillaries very long, pure white or white mixed with black and 

 buff. 



Eange. Europe and North and Central Asia. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Mantle not barred with black. {Males.) 

 a. Scapulars not tipped with white. 



a'. Breast and belly black, with a few of the 



feathers in the middle tipped with white, urogallus, p. 60. 



b\ Breast and belly mostly white, some of the 

 feathers mottled with black towards the 



extremity uralensis, p. 65. 



6. Scapulars widely tipped with white. 



c'. White tips narrower, forming an inter- 

 rupted line of white spots ^>a?'«jVos<?7's, p. 66. 



d'. White tips wider, forming a continuous 



white baud kamtscJiaticus, p. 67. 



B. Mantle strongly barred with black. (Females.) 



c. Breast and belly bufi"or whitish bulf barred 



with black. 

 e'. Darker; white tips to the scapulars 



narrower urogalbis, p. 60. 



f. Paler; white tips to the scapulars much 



wider uralensis, p. 65. 



d. Breast and belly black, barred with buff and 



tipped with white. 



g'. White tips of scapulars forming an inter- 

 rupted line of white spots parvirostris, p. 66. 



h'. White tips of scapulars forming a con- 

 tinuous white band kamtschaticus, p. 67. 



1. Tetrao urogallus. 



Muscovian Black Game-cock, Albin, N. H. Birds, ii. p. 28, pis. 29, 



30 (1738). 

 Urogallus major, Briss. Orn. i. p. 182 (1760). 

 Tetrao lu-ogallas, Linn. S. N. i. p. 273 (1766) ; (??w. S. N. i. p. 746 



(1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 634 (1790) ; Shaic, Mus. Lever. 



p. 221, pi. (1792) ; Beseke, Beytr. Vog. Kurl. p. 69 (1792) ; Bechst. 



Nat. Deutschl. iii. p. 470 (179-3) ; Pall. Zoogr. Bosso-As. ii. p. 56 



(1811) ; Penn. Brit. Zool. i. p. 347, pis. 44, 45 (1812) ; Temm. Pig. 



et Gall. iii. pp. 114, 696 (1815) ; miss. Orn. Svec. i. p. 297 



(1817); Stej}h. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 266, pi. 18 (1819); 



Breh)n, Beitr. Vdgelk. ii. p. 604 (1822) ; id. Lekrb. Eurup. Vog. i. 



p. 427 (1823) ; Boux, Orn. Prov. ii. p. 25, pis. 250, 251 (1830) ; 



Nilss. lllmn.Jig. Skand. Faun. i. pis. 55, 76 (1832) ; Natim. Nat. 



Vog. Dewtschl. \i. p. 277, pis. 154, 155 (1833) ; Schinz,Nat. Ahbild. 



Vog. p. 275, pi. 105 (1833) ; Jard. Nat. Libr., Orn. iv. p. 109, pi. 13 



(1834); Gould, B. Fur. iv. pi. 248 (1837); Macgill. Brit. B. i. 



p. 138 (1837) ; Dhnid. Vog. Buss. Merid. iii. p. 219 (1840) ; Gray, 



