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niper tops, in summer on goose-berries, rasp- 

 berries, currants, cranberries, &c. They are 

 not migratory, staying all the year at Moose 

 Fort ; they build their nests on dry ground, 

 hatch nine young at a time, to which the 

 mother clucks, as our common hen does ; 

 and on the least appearance of danger, or in 

 order to enjoy a comfortable degree of warmth, 

 the young ones retire under the wings of their 

 parent. 



N. B. A specimen, which is supposed to be 

 either a young bird or a female, wants the 

 blueish black shoulder-knot ; but it is the 

 same in all other respecls. 



TETRAO, 18. Phasianellus. Linn. Syst. Nat. Ed. 

 X. p. 1 60. n. 5. Edw. 117. Longtailed Grous. 

 Faun. Am. Septentr. 10. 



Severn River, N 6 and 7. Albany Fort, N 3. 



This bird, which Mr. Edwards has drawn plate 

 1 1 7, was by Linneus in the tenth edition of 

 his System, ranged as a new species of grous 

 or tetrao, by the specific name of Phasianel- 

 lus (alluding to the name of Pheasant which 

 it bears at Hudson's Bay, and likewise to its 

 pointed tail). He afterwards in the new or 

 twelfth edition of the System, p. 273. makes 

 it a variety of the great Cock of the Wood, 

 or Tetrao Urogallus, probably from the ac- 

 count in Mr. Edwards, that the male struts 

 very upright, is in general of a darker colour 

 than the female, and has a glossy neck. These 

 circumstances, howevere, are not sufficient to 



bring 



