698 TETRAO 



$ ad. In general colouration intermediate between T. urogallus and 

 T. parvirostris and approaches nearer the former in colouration, but has the 

 head and neck but slightly vermiculated, the upper parts less rufous 

 brown, the scapulars and tail coverts broadly marked with white, forming 

 continuous bands ; bill small as in T. parvirostris ; bill from end of feathering 

 to tip 0'8, wing 147, tail 11-0, tarsus 3*3 ; outer tail feathers 3'2 inch 

 shorter than the middle ones. 



Hob. The peninsula of Kamchatka. 



In habits it does not differ from T. parvirostris, but I do not 

 find any record of its nidification. 



976. BLACK GROUSE. 

 TETRAO TETRIX. 



Tetrao tetrix, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 274 (1766) : Nauni. vi. p. 324, Taf. 

 157 ; Gould, B. of E. iv. pi. 250 ; id. B. of Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 6 ; 

 Hewitson, i. p. 278, pi. Ixix. fig. 1 ; Dresser, vii. p. 205, pi. 487 ; 

 (Elliot), Monogr. Tetr. pi. xii. ; (Ogilvie Grant), Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 xxii. p. 53 ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 766 ; Saunclers, p. 493 ; Lilford, 

 iv. p. 106, pi. 45. 



Coq de bruy&re, French ; Pequeno-, Gallo de bosque, Span. ; 

 Fagiano di monte, Ital. ; JBirkhahn $ , Birkliuhn $ , German ; 

 Berkhoen, Dutch ; Urfugl, Dan. ; Aarfugl, Norweg. ; Orre, 

 Swed. ; Teiri, Tetri, Finn. ; Tetereff$ , Kosach $ , Russ. 



( ad. (Sweden). General colour black, glossed with blue on the head, 

 neck, and upper parts ; secondaries and larger wing-coverts white on the 

 basal portion, forming a conspicuous alar patch ; outer tail-feathers elongated 

 and curved outwards ; lower abdomen and thighs varied with greyish 

 white ; under wing- and tail-coverts white ; over the eye a large red warty 

 comb ; bill black ; feet and iris dark brown. Culmen I'l, wing 10*4, 

 tail in the middle 4*2, outer feathers S'5, tarsus 1*8 inch. Female : upper 

 parts rich rufous tinged with grey, the feathers banded or marked with 

 black, the secondaries at the base and tip white, forming two indistinct 

 alar bars ; tail forked ; breast more rufous and less marked with black 

 than the other parts ; middle of abdomen and legs greyish white, the 

 latter indistinctly marked with dull brown ; Under tail- and wing-coverts 

 white barred with brown and black. 



Hob. Europe, from about lat. 67 in Scandinavia south to 

 North Italy and Styria ; west to Great Britain ; Asia, east to 

 Eastern Siberia, north to 67 N. lat. on the Yenesei, south to 

 Turkestan, Manchuria, and, it is said, to North China. 



Like the Capercailly the Black Grouse is an inhabitant of 

 the forest and woodland, bat in Scotland it is found on the moors, 



