598 AVES—WOOD GROUSE. 
THE WOOD GRCUSE! 




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{s about the size of a turkey, and frequently weighs near fourteen pounIs, 
but the female is much smaller. The head and neck are ash color, crossed 
with black lines; the body and wings chesnut brown, and the breast of a 
very glossy blackish green. The legs are strong, and covered with brown 
feathers. The plumage of the female differs from this description, it being 
red about the throat, and having the head, neck, and back, crossed with red 
and black bars; the belly barred with orange and black, with the tips of the 
feathers white, as are also the tips of the shoulders. 
The cock of the wood, when in the forest, attaches himself principally to 
the oak and the pine tree; the cones of the latter serving for his food, and 
the thick boughs fora habitation. He feeds also on ants’ eggs; which seem 

1Tetrao urogallus, Linx. The genus ¢etrao has the bill short, thick, arched above, 
convex, bent downwards towards the tip, base naked; nostrils basal, half closed, with an 
arched scale above, and connected by small feathers ; eyebrows naked, with scarlet warts; 
tarsi feathered ; three toes before and one behind, united to the first jot; one toe bebind, 
margined with asperities. 
