HAZEL GROUS. 



Inhabits both the woods and alps of Lapland. Lays thirteen or 

 fourteen reddifli eggs, marked with large brown fpots. When 

 diflurbedj flies away with a loud noife, like a coarfe laugh. The 

 Keren, or connmon Ptarmigan, on the contrary, is filent. The 

 Keron inhabits the JIps only. 



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F. Hazel Gr. Will.Orn. 17^, 



Tetrao bonafia. Hiarpe, Faim. Suec. N" 204. 



La Gelinotte, De Buffon, ii. 233, tab. vii. — PI. EnU 474., 475. 



/^R. With the chin black, bounded with white : head and upper 

 part of the neck crofled with duflcy and cinereous lines : be- 

 hind each eye a white line : coverts of wings and fcapulars fpotted 

 with black and ruft-color ; breaft and belly white^ marked with 

 bright bay fpots : feathers of the tail mottled with afh and black i 

 and, except the two middlemofl:, crofled with a broad fingle bar 

 of black : legs feathered half way down. Female wants the black 

 fpoton the chin, and white ftroke beyond the eyes. Its fize fuperior 

 to an Englijh Partridge. 



Inhabits the birch and hazel woods of many parts of Europe, as 

 high as the diocefe of Drontheim, and even Lapland * ; and is not 

 unfrequent in the temperate parts. Paul/en f fays that it migrates 

 into the fouth 0^ Iceland m April, and departs in September? It lays 

 from twelve to twenty eggs : perches ufually in the midft of a tree; 

 is attrafted by a pipe, imitative of its voice, to the nets of the 

 fportfmen, who lie concealed in a hovel %. Is excellent meat, in- 

 fomuch that the Hungarians call it Tfchajarmadary or the bird of 

 Cajar, as if it was only fit for the table of the Emperor. Is found 

 in moft parts of the Ruffian dominions with the Ptarmigan, but 

 grows fcarcer towards the eaft of Sihiria. 



• S<heffir LapU 138. + Catalogue of Iceland Bir^s, MS. % Gefner Av. 2300 



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