GALLINACE.E. SI 5 



long tuft of slender red feathers, and long upright filaments, without 

 barbs on each eye-brow. It is the Roiiloul de Malacca, Sonner. 

 Voy. II, pi. 100; Cript. coronatus. Tern., Col. 350 and 351; Co- 

 lumba cristata, Gm. and Lath.; Phasianus cristatus, Sparm., Mas. 

 Carls. Ill, 64. Green; somewhat larger than a Quail. The fe- 

 male, which merely has a vestige of a tuft, is the Telrao viridis, 

 Lath., Syn. II, pi. 67*. 



Tetrao, Lin. 



The Grous also is a great genus, characterized by a naked aud most 

 generally red band, which occupies the place of the eye-brow. It is di- 

 vided into subgenera as follows: — 



Tetrao, Lath. 



The feet of Grous are covered with feathers, and are without spurs. 

 Those to which this name is more particularly applied have a round or 

 forked tail and naked toes. There are two large species of them in 

 France. 



T. urogallus, L. ; Grand Coq de Bruyeres; Enl. 73 and 74. 

 (The Great Heath-Cock, or Cock of the Woods, or Caper-Cailzie). 

 The largest of all the GallinaceK, and superior in size to the Turkey. 

 Its plumage is slate-coloured, transversely and finely striped with 

 black; the female is fawn-coloured, the cross lines brown or blackish. 

 Found in the heart of mountain forests, builds among the heath- 

 grass, or in newly cleared grounds, and feeds on berries and buds. 

 Its trachea makes two curves before it dips into the lungs. The 

 flesh is delicious. 



T. tetrix, L.; Coq de Bouleau; Enl. 172 and 173; Frisch. 109; 

 Naum. 1st Ed., 18, f. 37 and 38. (The Black Cock). The male 

 is more or less black, with some white on the coverts of the wings 

 and under the tail, the two forks of which diverge laterally. The 

 female is fawn-coloured, with black and white stripes crossing it. 

 Their size is that of the Cock, and they are found in mountain 

 forests. 



An intermediate species appears to exist in the north of Europe, 

 — T. intermedins, Langsdorf, Mem. de Petersb., tom. Ill, pi. xiv; 

 Sparm. M. Carls., pi. xv, which is larger than the preceding, with 

 the tail less forked, and the breast spotted with white. Found in 

 the marshy districts of Courland, Ingria, &c.'j- 



In the woods of temperate Europe we find, 



T. honasia, L. ; La Gelinotte; Poule des Coudriers\; Enl. 474 

 and 475; Frisch. 112; Naum. 20, f. 39, (the Hazel Grous), 



* The Colimba cristata, B., Gm., Lath., Syn. II, pi. Iviii, appears closely allied to 

 it ; but the figure represents it as having a large nail to the thumb. This is perhaps 

 an error, as in the Galer. Vieill., tom. II, pi. ccx. 



t It appears to be at once the Telras a plumage variable, and the Tetras a queue 

 pltine, of Buflbn. 



I BoNASiA, or BoNASA, name of the Gelinotte in Albertus Magnus and other au- 

 thors of the middle ages. 



