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feen but contributes its utmoft to the happinefs of the reft, and 

 to the profperity and well-being of the riling generation. 



22, The Black-Cock fz) is a native of our alpine waftes and fo- 

 refts. The head is large, the eyes of a lively and piercing afpect ; 

 the eye-brows adorned with a fcarlet protuberance, bright and 

 beautiful ; the cars patulous ; the beak black, and fomewhat 

 curvated. The whole upper plumage is black as jet, except 

 fome white on the wings, and a tinct of deep blue on the neck 

 and back, extremely gloffy and beautiful. The tail is forked, com- 

 pofed of fixteen feathers, black, and of an hoary white at the 

 tips, the three exterior ones on each fide long, and reflex. The 

 legs are feathered ; the toes naked, and connected to the fail 

 joint by a membrane, with a cutaneous ferrated edging on each 

 fide. 



The Hen is of fo different a colour, that to aftranger me might 

 feem a different fpecies. She has the fame fcarlet eye-brows, 

 patulous ears, and white in the wings, as the male ; but the reft 

 of her upper plumage is a yellowifh-red, and greyj variegated 

 with tranfverfe lines of black ; the breaft, belly, and legs, hoary; 

 the tail ilraight, and not reflex. Thefe admired birds were for- 

 merly very frequent on our alpine commons among the erlce, but 

 the eager purfuit of fportfmen after them, and the burning of 

 the erica, which afforded them both food and flicker, has made 



(z) Tetrao f. urogallus minor. Will. Orn. p. 124. t. 31. Raj. Av. p. 53. n. 2. Te- 

 trao remigibus fecundariis a medio bafin verfus albis, cauda bifurca. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 62. 

 n. 168. Urogallus minor, & Gallina Corylorum. Char It t. Av. p. 82. nun fpecie, fidfexu 

 tantum differunt. 



Mares, BLACK-GAME, i 



r ....._ i nomtnantur. 



iemina: & pulli, GREY-CAME, J 



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