THE RED GROUSE. 



GALLINJS. 



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TETRAONIDjE. 



Lagopus scoticus (Latham*). 



THE BED GROUSE. 



Lagopus scoticus. 



Lagopus, Brissonf. — Bill very stort, clothed at the base with feathers ; the 

 upper mandible convex, and bent down at the point. Nostrils basal, lateral, 

 partly closed by an arched membrane, and nearly hidden by the small closely-set 

 feathers at the base of the bill. Eyebrows naked, as in the genus Tetrao. 



* Tetrao scoticus, Latham, Ind. Orn., ii. p. 641 (1790). 

 t Omithologie, i. pp. 181, 216 (1760). 

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