214 G R O U S. 



,^ Spurious Grous, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 734. — JrB. Zool. ii. p. 3 14. JB. 1 



Var. a. Tetrao hybridus, Sparrm, Muf. Carl/, pi, 15. 



SPURIOUS GR. ___„ , , ... ,. , J , . ,.,., 



%X/ E have been hitherto much in the dark concerning this bird. 



Dr. Sparrman, to our prefent obfcure knowledge of it, adds 

 the following obfervations :— That it is of the fize of the female 

 Great or Wood Grous, and fuppofed to have been produced 

 from that bird and the male Black Grous : that it varies greatly in 

 - colour, fcarce two being found exaftly correfponding ; and that 

 it is a remarkably ftupid bird. Its note refembles mofl: that of 

 the Wood Grous, but louder, harlher, and every way more dif- 

 agreeable. This gentleman likewife remarks, that the birds hi- 

 therto met with, whether affociating with the male birds or females, 

 are ever of the male/ex. This fpecies is not uncommon in the 

 woods of Sweden and Finland, 



Mr. Tunfiall informs me, that he was told by fome old ScoUb 

 gentlemen, that both the Wood Grous, as well as the Spurious 

 Grous, were extant in Scotland within their memory. 



6, Spotted Grous, Gen. Syn. v, p. 735. N" 6. 



SPOTTED OR. 



Description. "^Jl ^' Hutchins has lately added to my colleftion a mod beautiful 

 variety of this oird. Length fixteen inches. General colour 

 of the plumage ferruginous cream-colour, marbled and ftriated 

 acrofs with brown and yellow clay-colour : fore part of the neck 

 and bread mod inclined to yellow : under parts of the body 

 white, marked with broken bars of cinereous brown : quills plain 

 brownifti cream-colour : tail yellowilh brown, prettily mottled 

 with darker -, the tips of all the feathers ferruginous, but pale. 



Ruffed 



