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them take refuge on the moll remote and folitary heaths and 

 mountains, and even there they arc become fo extremely fcarce, 

 that he is reckoned very fortunate who in a whole week's fearch 

 meets with a brood. They are now as rare at the better tables, 

 as they ufed to be abundant. It is the opinion of many of our 

 alpine people, that more are deftroycd in the fpring, when hyme- 

 neal joy makes them fearlefs, than at any other time, by infidi- 

 ous and vigilant poachers. The Black Cock, here described, was 

 killed, 5 Auguft, 1756. It weighed 44 ounces, and meafured 

 53 inches between the tips of the wings extended. 



23. The Gor-Cock, or Heath-Cock (aj, is more frequent than the for- 

 mer in mountainous places. The wings are of a yellowim-red, 

 variegated with tranfverfe wavy lines of black ; the breafl and 

 belly of the fame colour, with large white fpots. The beak is 

 Ihort and black ; the noftrils covered with feathers ; the eye- 

 brows naked, and adorned with a carneous femilunar fringe of 

 a bright fcarlet, more broad than in the hen. It is alfo diftin- 

 guifhed from her by white fpecks on the tips of the feathers 

 at the bafis of the beak, and a pretty large white fpot on each 

 fide of the bafis of the lower chap, and the deep unmixed yel~ 

 lowifh-red on the throat, and upper part of the breafl. In other 



(a) Gallina corylorum. Will. Orn. 126. t. 21. Raj. Av. 55. n. 6. Tetrao re&ricibus 

 cinereis pun&is nigris fafcia lata nigra exceptis intermediis duabus. Linn. Faun. Suec. 63. 

 n. 17. 



-cock. 



foor-hen. > 

 r-pouts. J 



Mas, Moor -cod. 



Femina, Moor-ben. \ Incolis montanis. 



Pulli, Moor-pouts. 



Red-Game. 



Gor-fowl. ^ Aliis. 

 Gor-cock 



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