350 TEN YEARS IN SWEDEN. 



wing coverts with long white streaks. The side fea- 

 thers of the tail rusty brown. In the female the red- 

 brown spot on the breast is smaller than in the male. 

 Yery common in the south and midland districts, but is 

 not met with north of Stockholm. 



155. P. COTURNIX, Lath. Vaktel. The Quail. D. 



Length about 7 in.; a pale yellow streak along the 

 crown of the head, and a similar one over each eye; 

 body above rusty brown or rusty grey, with black spots 

 and yellowish longitudinal streaks ; collar and breast 

 red brown, with white streaks ; belly white. 

 The Australian quail is not identical with the European. 

 Is met with sparingly as far up as 59 north lat., probably 

 further north. 



Gren. Tetrao, L. 



Beak short, thick, convex above j cere round the eye, 

 naked, red, thickly covered with warts, but no signs of a 

 comb ; nostrils covered with a feathery skin ; legs always 

 more or less feather-clad ; toes naked, fringed ; tail in all 

 (except the hazel grouse, which has but sixteen) consisting 

 of eighteen feathers. 



Tarsi feather-clad only to the middle. 



156. TETEAO BONASIA, L. Hjerpe. F! 



Length about 14 in., in Kalman Land over 15 in., 



feathers on the crown of the head long and pointed, 



shorter in summer than in winter ; tail, except in the 



two middle feathers, with a broad black band before 



the grey tip. Throat in the male black, in the female 



rusty yellow. Head and back of neck, grey-brown, 



with black streaks ; shoulders rusty brown ; back and 



rump ash grey. Yery prettily variegated. 



Is not met with in the extreme south, but from the middle 



to far up into Lapland, is found in all the old rocky fir forests, 



and a favourite home of the hazel grouse is in woods of 



trembling poplar and birch, at the foot of high rocks. In 



the summer they chiefly frequent leafy woods, in the winter 



