HYBRID GIIOUS. 
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tied with darker : the tips of all the feathers fer- 
ruginous, but paled* 
The inhabitants of the places where this species 
is found preserve them through the winter by 
freezing them, and when wanted they are thrown 
into cold water for a time. The fem,ale lays five 
eggs. 
B. Cauda bifurcd. 
B. Tail bifurcated. 
HYBRID GROUS. 
(Tetrao medius.) 
collo pectore cerviceque nigricante-violaceis^ purpureo-niten- 
tibus ; corpore nigricante, supra punctis rubescentis adsperso; 
subtus maculis albis vario ; caudd nigrd subbifurcd. 
Grous with the neck, breast, and cervix, dusky violet, glossed 
with purple j the body dusky, its upper part freckled with 
reddish spots, and its under varied with white spots tail 
black, slightly bifurcated. 
Tetrao medius. Temm. Gall. Ind. 6g8. — Meyer. Berl. Mag. 
Tetrao hybridus. Linn. Faun. Suec. ^0\.—Sparr. Mus. Carls 
1. pi 15. 
Tetrao Tetrix, var. J. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 636. 3.~—Gmel. Syst. 
Nat. 1. 748. — Nilss. Orn. Suec. 302. 
Urogallus minor punctatus. Briss. Orn. 1. lpl.2. a. 
Tetras rakkelham. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3. \'ig. pl.g.f.3 . — 
Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 287- 
Hybrid, or Spurious Grous. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 314. B. — Penn. 
Arct. Zool. Sup. 62 . — Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 734. — Lath. Syn. 
Sup. 214. — Penn. Brit. Zool. 1. 268 . — Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. 
