BRITISH BIRDS. 



RED GROUSE. 



KKI) CAME, MOOR GAME, GORCOCK, OR MOOR COCK. 



(Tctrao Scoticus y Linn. Tetras rouge, Temm.) 



THE length of this bird is fifteen inches; weight 

 about nineteen ounces. The bill is black; the eyes 

 hazel; nostrils shaded with small red and black 

 feathers; at the base of the lower bill is a white 

 spot on each side: the throat is red; each eye is 

 arched with a large naked spot, of a bright scarlet; 

 the whole upper part of the body is beautifully 

 mottled with deep red and black, which gives it 

 the appearance of tortoise-shell; the breast and 

 belly are of a purplish hue, crossed with small 

 dusky lines: the tail consists of sixteen feathers of 

 equal lengths, the four middlemost barred with red, 

 the others black; quills dusky; the legs are clothed 

 with soft white feathers down to the claws, which 



