RUFFED G R O U S, ^ 301 



XVII. G R O U S. Gen. Birds. XXXVL 



Ruffed Heathcock, or Grous, EJ-iv, 248.— £«/^«w<. 179, Rufped* 



Morehen, La Hontan, i. 69. 



Pheafant, Latufin, 139. 



Tetrao umbellus, Lin. Syfl. 275. — ^Tetrao togatus, ihid. 



La gelinote hupee de Penfylvanie, BriJJbn, i. 214.— and. La groffe gelinote 



de Canada— zo-j. 

 Le Coq de Bruyere a fraife, De Buffbn, Olf. ii. 281. — FU ent. 104. — Lev^ 



Mus. — Bl. Mvi. 



GR. With a great riifF on the hind part of the neck, to be 

 raifed or deprefled at pleafure : the head crefted : that, hind 

 part of the neck, the ruff, back, and coverts of the wings, pret- 

 tily varied with brown, ferruginous, and black: the black on the 

 ruff difpofed in broad black bars : the coverts of the tail marked 

 with heart-fhaped fpots of white : chin white : fore part of the neck, 

 yellowilh : breaft and belly dirty white, barred with cinereous 

 brown : primaries barred on their outmoft fides with black and rufl- 

 colouro. 



Tail large, expanfible like a fan j in fome of a cinereous colour, 

 in others orange, moft elegantly barred with narrow undulated lines 

 of black ; near the end with a broad band of alh-color, another 

 of black, and tipped with white. 



Legs feathered to the {^tt : toes naked and peftinated. 



Female wants both creft and ruff. Crown dufky : back mixed 

 with black and ruft-colour like a Woodcock: breaft, belly, and co- 

 verts of the wings, barred with dirty white and cinereous brown : 

 tail fhort, brown, tipt with white j two middle feathers mottled 

 with. red... 



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