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LAGOPUS SCOTICUS. 



(RED GROUSE.) 



Lag opus, bonasa scotica, Briss. Ornit. i. p. 199. no. 5 (1760). 



Tetrao lagopus, var. -y, Gm. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 750 (1788). 



Tetrao scoticus, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 641 (1790, ex Briss.). 



Tetrao saliceti (cestate), Temm. Man. d'Ord. 1st ed. p. 296 (1815); Pig. et Gallin. iii. 



pp. 208-217 {(estate) (1815). 

 Lagopus scoticus, Leach, Syst. Cat. M. & B. Brit. Mus. p. 27 (1816). 

 Lagopus scoticus (Lath.), Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xvii. p. 206 (1817). 

 Tetrao scoticus, Lath., Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 465, iv. p. 321 (1820). 

 Oreias, Kaup (Tetrao scoticus, Lath.), Natiirl. Syst. p. 177 (1829). 

 Tetrao saliceti scoticus, Schlegel, Rev. Crit. pp. lxxvi, 89 (1844). 



Bed Grouse, Moor-fowl, Muir-fowl, Muir-cock, Gor-coclc, Red Ptarmigan, English ; Coileach- 

 fruoch, Cearc-fhraoich, Gaelic. 



Figure notabiles. 



Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 252 ; id. B. of G. B. iv. pi. vii. ; Werner, Atlas, Faisans, pi. 6 ; Daniel's 

 Rural Sports, iii. pi. to p. 106 ; Elliot, Monogr. Tetr. pi. xix. ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. pi. 30. 

 fig. 5 ; Sundevall, Sv. Fogl. lxiii. fig. 3. 



<5 ad. nigricanti-brunneus, castaneo vel rufescente transversim vermiculatus : capite, collo et uropygio rufes- 

 centioribus : remigibus nigricanti-brunneis : cauda nigricanti-brunnea, rectricibus centralibus rufescente 

 vermiculatis : supra oculos caruncula, nuda coccinea, linea a maxilla et plumis suprk et infra oculos 

 albis : gutture et pectore superiore lsete ferrugineis : abdomine vix albido notato : tibiae et tarsi plumis 

 grisescenti-brunneis : rostro corneo : unguibus albicanti-corneis : iride brunnea. 



2 ad. mari similis, sed minor, ubique pallidior, supra ocbrascenti-brunnea vix ferrugineo lavata et transversim 

 nigricante brunneo vermiculata : plumis nonnullis ochrascente brunneo apicatis : macula supraoculari 

 minore quam in mare : subtus pallidior nee ferruginea sed saturate ochrascenti-brunnea ubique nigri- 

 cante brunneo vermiculata. 



Adult Male in spring (Scotland) . Upper parts blackish, brown, narrowly vermiculated with reddish brown, 

 head, neck, rump, and upper tail-coverts more rusty red in tinge than the rest of the upper parts ; 

 quills uniform blackish brown; tail blackish brown, the central feathers vermiculated with rufous 

 brown, over the eye a warty red comb, feathers over and under the eye, and an irregular line on each 

 side from the base of the lower mandible white, neck to the upper part of the breast rich dark rusty 

 red, rest of the underparts blackish brown, more or less vermiculated with dark rusty red, and a few 

 of the feathers on the abdomen tipped with white ; legs covered to the claws with hair-like feathers, 

 dull greyish or brownish on the tibise, but merging into dirty white towards the feet ; beak dark horn ; 

 claws light greyish horn; iris hazel. Total length 15-5 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 8 - 2, tail 4-2, 

 tarsus 1*8. 



