lis HAZEL GB0U8E. 



"In tlie north, tliey are considered the most delicate of forest 

 game, but they afford little sport to the real sportsman, as we 

 generally shoot them from the perch. I think they are more shy 

 and retired in their habits than any other of the Grouse." 



"The beak is black, thick, and convex; uj)per mandible the 

 longest. First primary shorter than the eighth, second shorter than 

 the sixth; third, fourth, and fifth alike, and longest. Tail somewhat 

 rounded. The crown feathers, wliich, in the male especially, are long, 

 can be raised into a kind of crest. Over the eye is a small naked 

 red spot, with, small warts on the U23per edge, but no comb. Tarsi 

 generally only half, but sometimes three fourths covered with, grey, 

 soft, hairy feathers; the naked part grey brown, covered with divided 

 half rings. Toes grey brown, covered with half rings, and on the 

 sides with scales, under which they are fringed with combed teeth; 

 claws pale brown." 



"It varies much in size. From the northern tracts the male is 

 generally from fourteen inches to fourteen inches and a half long; 

 extent of wings twenty inches; tail four inches and six eighths, 

 extending beyond the wings three inches and a half; tarsus one inch 

 and a half." The above is Swedish measure, in which the inch is a 

 quarter of an eighth shorter than ours, and, I have no doubt, refers 

 to freshly-killed specimens. The dimensions in my diagnosis are those 

 of a fine male sent me by Mr. Wheelwright, which is figured. 



*'Head above, neck, and part of the back brown or grey brown, 

 with black transverse streaks ; shoulders rusty brown, with black spots, 

 and in the outer edge a long white streak. Wing coverts grey 

 brown, with white spots; back and rump ash grey, marked with 

 longitudinal black streaks and small black points; chin and throat pure 

 black, with a white edging. Behind the nostrils a white spot, and a 

 small one behind the eye. Front of neck rusty brown, with a black 

 streak before the white edge of each feather. This black streak and 

 the white edge is broader on the breast and belly, on which account 

 it appears white with black or brown red transverse spots. On the 

 sides the red brown colour is more apparent. Wing primaries dark 

 brown, speckled on the outer web with rusty yellow and brown. 

 Secondaries same, with, rusty yellow edges on the tips. Tail feathers 

 black, speckled with ash grey, and a pure black band before the tip, 

 which is pale ash grey, often speckled with black. The two middle 

 feathers speckled with brown and black, and marked with seven or 

 eight confused black and ash grey transverse bands. Iris, in a freshly- 

 killed specimen, brownish." 



"Summer dress. The feathers on the head and neck are much 



