Rep Grovs. GALLINA. TETRAO. 307 
The flesh of this bird is sweet and well favoured, not of so 
deep a colour as that of the red grous, and the internal pec- 
toral muscle, which is remarkably wate, is esteemed the most 
delicate part. 
Puiate 58. Male bird of the natural size. 
Bill black. Head, neck, breast, back, and rump, black, with General 
blue and purple reflections. Belly, wing-coverts, and eee 
tail, pitch-black. Secondary quills tipped with white, Male. 
and forming, with the adjoining coverts, a band across 
each wing. Under tail-coverts pure white. Eye-brows 
naked, vermilion-red. Legs clothed with blackish-grey 
feathers to the toes; which last are furnished with late- 
ral fringed appendages. 
PuatE 58*. The female. Natural size. 
Head and neck ochreous-yellow, rayed with black. aaaee Female. 
parts orange-brown, barred and speckled with black. 
Greater wing-coverts tipped with white. Breast pale 
orange or chesnut brown, barred with black. Belly 
greyish-white, barred with black and brown. Under 
tail-coverts white, rayed with black. Tail slightly forked, 
orange-brown, spotted with black; the tip greyish-white. 
The young, until the autumnal moult, resemble the fe- 
male. 
SECTION If. 
With the tarsus and toes feathered. Tail square at the 
end. 
+ Red Grous.—Tetrao Scoticus, Lath. 
PLATE 59. Fig. 1. 
Tetrao Scoticus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2. p. 641. sp. 15. 
Bonasa Scotica, Briss. 1. p. 199. 5. t. 22. fi 1. 
Tetrao Lagopus, var. y and 8. Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 750. 
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