168 AVES RASORES. [NUMIDA. 



head and neck are coloured much the same as in the P. colchicus, but all 

 the rest of the plumage is of a uniform pale brownish yellow, the feathers 

 being edged with black, and indented at the tips, as in the species last 

 described : tail rather darker than the body, but paler than in the common 

 Pheasant. The history of this peculiar breed, together with the origin of 

 its name, does not appear to be well ascertained. 



* GEN. 57. NUMIDA, Linn. 



* 147. N. Meleagris, Linn. (Guinea Pintado.) Head and upper 

 part of the neck naked, the skin bluish : plumage on the body bluish 

 gray, with white spots. 



N. Meleagris, Temm. Pig. et Gall. torn. n. p. 431. and torn. in. p. 680. Guinea 

 Pintado, Lath. Syn. vol. n. p. 685. Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 332. 



DIMENS. Entire length twenty-two inches : length of the bill one inch three 

 lines. 



DESCRIPT. Head bare of feathers, and covered with a naked bluish skin ; on the 

 crown a callous conical protuberance, compressed at the sides and directed back- 

 wards, of a bluish red colour; at the base of the upper mandible, on each side, 

 a loose pendulous wattle, bluish in the male, red in the female : upper part of the 

 neck nearly naked, being thinly furnished with hair-like feathers, which on the nape 

 are directed upwards ; the skin bluish ash ; lower part of the neck feathered, in- 

 clining to purple : general colour of the plumage on the other parts, dusky, or dark 

 bluish gray, sprinkled all over, the breast alone excepted, with round white spots of 

 various sizes : back very much rounded : tail short, and bent down : feet brownish 

 red. ( Egg.) Yellowish white ground, mottled all over with reddish yellow : long, 

 diam. two inches ; trans, diam. one inch seven lines. 



Brought originally from Africa, but has long been domesticated in Britain. Is 

 very prolific ; but the young are difficult to rear. Of a restless disposition, and very 

 clamorous. 



GEN. 58. TETRAO, Linn. 



(1. TETRAO, Steph.) 



1 148. T. Urogallus, Linn. (Wood Grow*.) Chin and throat-feathers 

 elongated : breast glossed with dark green : bill white : tail rounded at 

 the extremity. 



T. Urogallus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. n. p. 457. Id. Pig. et Gall. torn. in. 

 pp. 114, & 696. Wood Grous, Lewin, Brit. Birds, vol. iv. pi. 132. 

 Mont. Orn. Diet. Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 335. (Trachea) Linn. 

 Trans, vol. xvi. pi. 21. f. 1. 



DIMENS. Entire length (male) two feet ten inches, (female) two feet one inch : 

 breadth, wings extended, three feet six inches. 



DESCRIPT. (Male.) Head and neck dusky ash, passing into black on the chin 

 and throat where the feathers are elongated ; a bare red skin above the eye, and 

 beneath it a small spot of white feathers ; breast of a fine dark glossy green ; rest of 

 the under parts black, with white spots : wings and scapulars chestnut brown, finely 

 speckled with dusky ; lower part of the back, rump, sides, and upper tail-coverts, 

 marked with numerous small undulating lines and specks of black, upon an ash- 

 coloured ground : tail very much rounded, black, some of the feathers having a 

 white spot on each side near the extremity : tarsi thickly clothed with brown hair- 

 like feathers: bill yellowish white: irides hazel. (Female.) Very much smaller : 

 head, neck, and back, barred transversely with black and tawny red ; throat tawny 

 red, without spots ; breast deep red, with a few white spots ; belly barred like the 

 back, some of the feathers tipped with white : quills dusky, mottled on their outer 

 webs with light rufous brown : tail dark red with black bars ; the tip white : bill 

 dusky. (Young male after the first moult.) Upper plumage not so deep coloured 

 as in the adult, inclining to cinereous gray -, green on the breast more dull ; a few 

 red feathers shewing themselves in different parts of the body ; tail often tipped with 



