SIO BIRDS. 



■which is but a little larger than the Partridge, and is prettily varie- 

 gated with brown and white, grey and red; a large black band near 

 the tip of the tail; throat of the male black, and his head slightly 

 tufted*. 

 America produces some neighbouring species, such as 



Tet. canadensis and canace, L. ; Gelinotte noire d'Amer., Enl. 

 131 and 132; Edw. 118 and 71. Brown, verging more or less on 

 a black ; tip of the tail red. 



In some, the feathers on each side of the neck of the males are 

 turned up like a mantle, or two scrolls : their habits have an affinity 

 with those of the Turkey. Such are, 



Tetr. umhellus and togatus, Gm. ; Coq. de Bruy. a fraise, Enl. 

 104; Edw. 248; Wils. pi. xlix; called Pa/-ir/d^^e in New England, 

 and Pheasant in Pennsylvania. Variegated with red, grey, and 

 black : a large black spot at the bottom of the neck, on each side ; 

 a black band edged with white on the tip of the tail ; lower part of 

 the tarsi naked. Found in the mountain forests; the voice of the 

 male in the nuptial season resembles the roll of a dTum. 



Tetr. cnpido, Gm., Catesb. Suppl. 1; Wils., pi. xxvii; Vieill. 

 Galer. 219. (The Pinnated Grous). Variegated with brown and 

 fawn colour ; tail brown ; tarsi feathered down to the toes ; the fea- 

 thers on the bottom of the male's neck turn up into two pointed 

 scrolls, beneath which is a naked skin, which, in the genial season, 

 he inflates like a bladder; his voice sounds like a trumpet. Found 

 on extensive plains, and is such delicious food that laws have been 

 passed to preserve the breed f. The name of 



Lagopus. 



The Lagopede, Snow-Partridge, or Ptarmigan, is more particularly 

 applied to those species which have a round or square tail; whose toes 

 are feathered as well as the legs. The most common become white in 

 winter. 



Tetr. lagopus, L. ; Lagopede ordinaire^, Enl. 120 and 494 ; 



Brit. Zool. pi. M, 3, M, 4; Naum. 1st Ed. Supp. 61, f. 115, 116. 



(The Ptarmigan or White Grous, or Partridge of the Pyrennees). 



Its summer plumage is fawn coloured, marked with small black 



lines §. From high mountains, where it remains during the winter, 



in holes which it forms under the snow. 



* Ihti Attagns of Buff., Attagen of Aldrov., Ornitb., II, p. 75; Gdbwtte hvppee, 

 Briss-, appears to me after much research, even in Italy, to be nothing more than a 

 young or female Gelinotte. It is the same individual painted by Frisch., pi. cxii. 

 The Tetrao cidius, Gm. (Sparm. Mus. Carls., p. 16) is only an albino variety of the 

 Gtlinotte. Neither iiave I any confidence in the authenticity of the I'etr. nemes- 

 sianns, nor in that of the Tetr. betiiihuis of Scopoli. They are females, or the young 

 of the Tetr. tetrix, or disfigured Gelinottes. 



f Add, Tet. urophasianus, Bonap. Ill, pi, xxi, f. 2; — Tci. olsciirus, Bonap. Ill, 

 pi. xviii. 



:|; Lagopus— hare's foot, hairy foot — is the ancient name of this bird. 



§ In tliis summer livery it is the Tetr. rupestris, Lath. 



