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barred with black, with the more conspicuous wing and 

 tail feathers, brown and black. Under tho neck there is a 

 sort of skin pouch, capable of containing half a gallon. 

 The flesh is much prized. The bustard is now a very rare 

 bird in England, but in France they are less uncommon. 

 They will probably soon become extinct in Great Britain, 

 like the wood-grous, which, within the last eighty years, 

 has disappeared from that country. 



The Grous, tetrao. There were, until recently, three 

 well known species of grous in Great Britain. 1st. Tho 

 Black Grous or heath-cock, a bird of wholly black plumage, 

 found in the heathy districts of the three kingdoms. 2d. 

 The Red Grous, or moor-fowl, very abundant in the Scotch 

 moors, and found in no other part of Europe, being the 

 only bird peculiar to Britain. 3d. The Wood-Grous, for- 

 merly by no means uncommon, but which has recently 

 become quite extinct in Great Britain, although it is still 

 found on the continent of Europe. 



The Titmouse, parus. The titmice are dispersed more 

 or less over the whole world, excepting some portions of 

 tho southern hemisphere, as South America, and New 

 Holland. In England, they have seven or eight different 

 species : tho great tit, p. major; colemouse, p. ater; marsh- 

 tit, p. palustris; long-tailed tit, p. caudatus; blue tit, p. 

 caeruleus; bearded tit, p. biarmicus; crested tit, p. crislatus. 

 In the United States, we have three species : the common 

 chicadee, p. atricapillus ; tho Caroline titmouse, p. caro- 

 linensis; and the crested titmouse, p. bicolor. This last is 

 found in Europe also, but in England it is very rare. All 

 three species belong to the birds of New York. 



The Nightingale, corruca luscinia The far-famed 



nightingale is a bird of a dusky brown, and gray plumage, 

 about seven inches in length, being the largest of the 

 warblers found in England. It is in one sense a shy bird, 

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