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side, near the extremity : the tarsi are covered 
witli brown silky feathers, with loose webs, slightly 
marked with white spots : tlie feet and claws horn- 
colour. The female is much smaller than the 
male, rarely measuring above twenty-six inches in 
length : the beak is dusky : the head, neck, back, 
scapulars, and coverts of the wings and tail, are 
dusky brown, varied with transverse stripes of 
red : the tail dark rufous, barred with black and 
tipped with white : the throat is reddish yellow : 
the breast deep reddish, varied with a few white 
spots : the belly the same, barred with black ; the 
under tail-coverts tipped with white : the quills 
are dusky brown, mottled on their outer webs 
with pale brown. 
The young of both sexes of the first year greatly 
resemble the female : the males of the second 
moidt have the upper parts of the body^ greydsh 
black ; the green on the breast is veiy dull, and 
often the feathers of the bpdy’^ are varied with 
rufous, and the tail tipped with vrhite. 
Several varieties of this species are briefly noticed 
by Nilsson in his Ornithologia Suecica, which may 
be readily discriminated from T. Tetrix, by” the 
tail being rounded : they are all described in the 
synonyms as fully as in the above-mentioned w'ork. 
Tliis bird inhabits wooded and mountainous 
countries, particularly pine forests or plantations 
of juniper : it feeds upon the berries of the latter, 
and those of the vaccinium,and also upon the seeds 
and tops of the pine, which sometimes give the 
flesh a very* disagreeable flavour. In tlie spring 
the male may' be seen at sun-rise, and in the even- 
