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fir forests. Appear to be always on the ground, except 

 when frightened up into a tree. Call-note a soft whistle. 

 Monogamous. In April the female lays seven to ten pale 

 yellow-brown spotted eggs on a nest of moss. The whole 

 family keep together during the autumn and winter, but 

 several cocks are never known to pack, as is the case with 

 the black grouse, and even the capercaillie. 



Beautifully figured in Breeds <c Birds of Europe" as the 

 hazel grouse. 



Tarsi feathered to the very toes. 



157. T. UROGALLUS, L. Tjader. The Capercaillie. F. 



Length of male about 3 ft., of female a little over 2 

 ft. A good old male will weigh 10 to 12 Ib., or even 

 more ; a female 6 to 7 Ib. 



I did not remark that the Lapland capercaillie were much 

 smaller than those we kill in Wermland. Tail rounded; 

 male, body watered with black, on the throat with glossy 

 ash blue, on the wings with red-brown ; female, speckled and 

 wavy, with black, rusty yellow, and white. Barren hens 

 resemble the cocks. 



Is met with in Scandinavia wherever fir forests grow, 

 from the north of Scania to the North Cape. 



Polygamous. The female lays about seven eggs in May, 

 much resembling those of the grey hen, but larger, and 

 scarcely ever so deeply spotted. 



158. T. TETRIX, L. Orre. The Black Grouse. D. P. 



Length of male about 22 in.; female considerably 

 smaller; tail cloven, the side feathers in the female 

 much curved outwardly ; female black, with a beautiful 

 blue gloss on the neck and breast, a double white streak 

 on the wings ; under wing and tail coverts white ; 

 female speckled with rusty yellow and black transverse 

 lines; tarsus not !-- in.; weight of male about 3 Ib. 

 Is far more common and widely spread over the whole of 



Scandinavia than the capercaillie, but does not go so far 



north. Hare in Denmark. 



