WOOD GROUS. 
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Grous with the neck and body above dusky, transversely waved 
with cinereous; beneath dusky, varied with white spots; the 
axillae white ; the breast green, glossed with brassy ; the tail 
black and rounded, its feathers with two white spots towards 
the tip. {Female less, transversely variegated with black and 
ash-colour ; the throat, breast, and tail-feathers rufous, the 
latter barred with black.) 
Tetrao Urogallus. Linn, Syst. Nat. 1. 273 . 1. — Linn. Faun. 
Suec. 200. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. /-id . — Lath. Ind. Orn, 2. 634 . 
1. — Temm. Gall. Ind. 696. — Nilss. Orn. Suec. 1. 297 - 
Urogallus major. Briss. Orn. 1. 182 . — Raii. Syn. 53 . a. 1. 
Coq de Bruyere, ou Tetras. Bujf. Ois. 2 . igi. pi. 5 . — Buff. PI. 
Enl. 73 and 74 . 
Tetras Auerhan. Temm. Pig. et Gall. 3 . 114 . pi. g. ff. 1. 2. 
beak, &c. — Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 
Cock of the Wood, or Mountain. Albin. Birds. 2. pi. 29 
and 30. 
Wood Grous. Penn. Brit. Zool. 1. g2. pi. 40 , 41 . — Penn. Arct. 
Zool. 2 , 312 . — Supp. 62. — Lath. Gen. Syn. A. /2g. 1. — Z^’. 
Brit. Birds. 4 . 132 , — TValc. Syn. 2 . pi. ISO. — Don. Brit. Birds. 
4 , pi. 89. — Bexi-. Brit. Birds. 1. 295 . — Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. — 
Mont. Om. Diet. Supp. 
Var. /S. Dorsum anticum album maculis ferrugineis, fusco tenuis- 
sime undulatis ; posiicum nigrum pennis albisinseriis ; abdomen 
el Cauda maculis albis ; tibice sordide albce. Mas. 
With the anterior jiart of the back white, with ferruginous 
spots, slightly undulated with brown ; the posterior portion 
black, varied with white ; abdomen and tail with white spots ; 
tibiae dull white. Male. 
Tetrao Urogallus, var. a. Nilss. Orn. Suec. 1. 299. 
Var. y. cinereo-canus, capite colloque saturatioribus. Mas. 
Hoary-grey, with the head and neck darker. Male. 
Tetrao Urogallus. var. jS. Nilss. Orn. Suec. I. 299 * 
Var. S. supra sordide testacea undulis rarioribus albis, subtus 
testaceo albidoque undulata. 
Above dull testaceous, with few white undulations; beneath 
undulated with testaceous and white. 
Tetrao Urogallus, var. y. Nilss. Orn. Suec. 1. 299. 
Var. £. Tota sordida albida, fuscescenti nebulvsa. 
