276 GROU S, 
2. 
GOOTO Gooto, Bruce’s Trav. i. p. 80. 2416 
GR. 
DEsceiPrion. MR. Bruce fays, that a bird like a Partridge, and better than a 
Pigeon, is common in the defarts of Africa: he gives, however, 
but an imperfect defcription of this fpecies, if diftinét from thofe al- 
ready known: he defcribes it as being of different colours in different 
places: that of the defarts of Tripoli and Cyrenaicum very beautiful 5 
that of Egypt fpotted white like a Guinea Fow/, but upon a brown 
ground, not a blue one, as the latter is. About Yor, very fmall, and 
coloured like the back of a Partridge; but indifferent food, as all of 
them are. Mr. Bruce exprefsly fays, this is not of the fame kind as 
the Partridge, as the legs and feet are covered with feathers, and has 
but two toes before. It feeds on infects. 
Mr. Garnet, in his Tour through the Highlands of Scotland, men- 
tions, that on account of the different temperatures of the air of the 
mountain Benlomond, the perpendicular height of which is faid to be 
3,262 feet, that the P/overs abound near the middle of the moun- 
tain, Grous a little higher, and near the top Prarmigans, which were 
remarkably tame. 
