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WOOD GROUS. 
caninciilated skin over the eyes, forming a kind of 
eyebrow, which is more or less of a red colour : 
the tarsi are covered with feathers, and are de- 
stitute of a spur : the toes are naked. 
They build their nests upon the ground ; they 
are constructed in a very artless manner, of a few 
small branches of pines, heath tops. See. The fe- 
males produce many eggs, and the young run about 
as soon as hatched, often with pieces of the shell 
adhering to them : their food consists of seeds, 
berries, a few insects, and the slender tops of various 
evergreens : they are all natives of the colder 
climates, those of southern provinces generally 
inhabiting the loftiest mountains, where the at- 
mosphere is bleak and cold. 
A. Caicdd rotundatd. 
A. Tail rounded. 
WOOD GROUS. 
(Tetrao Urogallus.) 
Te- collo corporeque supra nigricantibus chiereo transversim un~ 
dulatis ; subtus nigricante maculis albis vario, axillis albis, 
pectore viridi nitore ceneo caudd nigra rotmidatd, rectricibus 
versus apicem diiabus maculis albis. (Femina, minor, nigro 
cinereoque transversim vnriegatd; guldy pectore rectricibusque 
rufis, his nigro’^asciatis.) 
