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Groufe, 
TheRuffed 
Groufe. 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
have from four to fix young at a time. They 
are faid to be very deftructive to fruit-trees that 
are raifed in gardens in the more Southern parts 
of America; but the want of thofe luxuries in 
Hudfon’s Bay renders them very harmlefs and | 
anoffenfive birds. ‘The red feathers of the larger 
fort, which frequent the interior and Southern 
parts of the Bay, are much valued by fome of 
the Indians, who ornament their pipe-ftems with 
them, and at times ufe them as ornaments to their 
children’s clothing. Neither of the two fpecies 
here mentioned ever migrate, but are conftant 
inhabitants of the different climates in which 
‘they are found. 
There are feveral fpecies of Grouse in the dif 
ferent parts of Hudfon’s Bay; but two of the 
largeft, and one of them the moft beautiful, ne- 
ver reach fo far North as the latitude 59°: but as 
I have feen them in great plenty near Cumberland 
Houle, I fhall take the liberty to defcribe them. 
The Rurrep Grouse. Thisis the moft beau- 
tiful of all that are claffed under that name. 
They are of a delicate brown, prettily variegated 
with black and white: tail large and long, like 
that of a hawk, which is ufually of an orange- 
colour, beautifully barred with black, chocolate, 
and white; and the tail is frequently expanded 
like a fan. To add to their beauty, they havea 
ruff of glofly black feathers, richly tinged with 
purple round the neck, which they can erect at 
pleafure: this they frequently do, but more par- 
| ticularly 
