OF BIRDS. 



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refpefts, they are pretty near of the fame colour throughout ; the 

 tail not forked. The legs of both have a downy plumage, as 

 well as thofe of the black game, to prefcrve them from being 

 frozen and torped by the feverity of the winter's frofts and 

 mows. 



24. The Pheafant (b), admired for its beautiful form and plu- 

 mage, and for the table, is a native of our vale-woods. The 

 beak in the more aged is whitifh, with two carneous tubercles 

 at the bafe, veiling the noftrils. The iris of the eyes is a fplen- 

 dent yellow ; round which is a confiderable naked fpace of a 

 bright fcarlet ; the plumage between them black, with a change- 

 able glow of purple. The ears are patulous, and the feathers 

 near them long and elevated. The crown and neck are of a 

 changeable glofly green, deeper on the latter, the fides of which 

 have a purple glow. The reft of the upper plumage is of a 

 glofly black or purple, as feen in different lights. The hen is 

 not fo richly attired, being nearly of the colour of a quail. It 

 is lefs frequent than formerly ; owing perhaps as much to the 

 destruction of our woods, which gave it both food and flicker, 

 as to the unwearied pains taken by fportfmen to bring it to the 

 table. 



25. The Grey Plover, or Stone-Plover (c), is frequent on our 

 alpine heaths, about mofles ; feeding, gregatim, in Atiguft, on 



(b) Phafianus. Charlet. Av. p. 8r. iii. 



(c) Pluvialis cinerea, Italis Montana, THE GREY PLOVER, or STONE-PLOVER. Charlet* 

 Av. p. 113. i. Raj. Av. p. i. n. 3. 



Tringa nigro-fufca fubtus alba, roftro nigro, pedibus virefcentibus, Linn. Faun. Su'ec. 

 p. 57. n. 155. 



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