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Genus LVI. GROUS, 
N° 1. Hybrid Gr. N° z. Gooto Gr. 
Tetrao hybridus, Mu Carl/faf. i. t. 15? 
Hybrid Pheafant, White’s Nat. Calend. pl. inp. 65. 
HIS, from the appearance in the plate, is certainly more allied 
to the Grous than the Phea/ant genus; and does not feem to differ 
materially from that in the Carl/onian Mufeum. Did not Mr. White in 
another place * exprefsly fay, that the Black Grous was at the time 
of his writing extinct at Se/borne, we fhould have no hefitation to 
pronounce it a mixed breed between that bird and the Phea/ant ; how- 
ever, the fa&t is not impoffible, as the Black Grous ftill remains in fe- 
veral parts of Hampfhire. This bird weighed three pounds three 
ounces and a half: the back, wings, and tail pale ruffet, curioufly 
ftreaked, fomewhat like the upper parts of a Hen Partridge: the tail 
blunt and fquare at the end: head, neck, and breaft, gloffy black; 
fome of the feathers edged with pale yellow: round the eye a bare 
fearlet red fpace; the bill ftout and black, as in the Black Grous: 
legs pale brown, totally bare of feathers; claws black. 
This was fhot at large in a coppice in the Holt, a feat belonging 
to Lord Stawel. 
* Hi, of Selborne, p. 16. 
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