HAZEL GROUS. 
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they do with great obstinacy, and are frequently 
so inattentive to their own safety, that it often 
happens that two or three of them are killed at a 
shot. 
This bird inhabits the colder countries of Eu- 
rope and Asia, being abundant in the pine woods 
of Russia, Siberia, Norway, Sweden, &c. : the 
Alps and the mountains of Lorrain occasionally 
furnish a few individuals, particularly the former : 
it also occurs in various other mountainous parts, 
where the air is bleak : it was formerly abundant 
in Scotland (as before mentioned) and Ireland, 
but appears to be extirpated, at least in the. latter 
place ; in the former it went by the name of Caper- 
caile, Capercalze, and Auercalze : in Norway it is 
called Auerhan. 
Its flesh is greatly esteemed, and numbers of the 
birds are often sent from the continent during the 
winter to this country, where they arrive in great 
perfection. 
HAZEL GROUS. 
(Tetrao Bonasia.) 
Ti£. corpore supra rujescente macidis Jiiscis nigris et cinereis 
vario, subtus drier ascente, tumulis nigris conspersoy maculd. 
utrinque alba pone aures ; rectricibus dnereis punctis nigris 
fascia nigra, exceptis intermediis duabus, gula nigra, (Femina 
gula alba.) 
