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Total length 13 inches, culmen 0"8, wing 6*1, tail 5, tarsus 1*25. This bird has not got the feathering 

 of the legs so extended as in the foregoing examples, which are probably older birds. Canon Tristram 

 has also lent us two males from his collection, obtained in Sweden by the late Mr. Wheelwright ; and 

 in 'both of them we notice a peculiarity which is not so fully developed in any of the three male 

 birds examined by us. This is the junction of the cheek-stripe below the black throat, thus forming 

 a conspicuous jugular patch of white, while the line of white on the sides of the neck is not continuous 

 from the cheek-stripe, but is separated from the latter by the brown feathers of the neck. Altogether 

 these last-named specimens are more decidedly tinged with rusty than any we have yet seen ; and the 

 development of the white gular patch forms a conspicuous feature. Total length 12-12 - 7 inches, 

 culmen 08, wing 6"6-6'8, tail 5, tarsus L25. 



Adult Female. A little smaller and in general appearance more rufous than the male, especially on the 

 head, hinder neck, and chest ; the grey of the lower back also less pure, all the feathers more or less 

 tinged with rust-colour, a perceptible shade of which likewise pervades the centre tail-feathers. All the 

 characteristic white spots and bands are less strongly developed, and are tinged with clear fulvous ; the 

 bands on the head and cheeks are particularly obscure, and the spots on the wing-coverts and outer 

 scapulars not nearly so plain as in the male, the band down the sides of the neck being the only one 

 which approaches to pure white. The ear-coverts are very distinctly rufous. Besides all these minor 

 differences, however, there are certain trenchant characters by which the adult female may always be 

 distinguished from the old male, viz. the absence of the black throat, which is fulvous white, slightly 

 varied with blackish spots, and the feathered eyebrow. Total length 12 inches, culmen - 8, wing 6*4, 

 tail 4 - 7, tarsus l - 2. Females do not seem to vary so much inter se as do the males. 



Young Male. In general colour like the old female, but much clearer grey on the lower part of the back and 

 rump ; the hinder neck more distinctly barred with fulvous, and the spots and streaks on the scapulars 

 and wing-coverts distinctly of the latter colour. The head is clear brown, slightly mottled with blackish, 

 and perceptibly crested, even in the very young stage. The throat is very pale fulvous, mottled with 

 dusky ; and the whole under surface is shaded with fulvous ; the feet are pale yellowish ; and the tarsus 

 is very little feathered; the beak is horn-brown, with a great deal of yellow on the lower mandible. 



Obs. The young bird certainly gains its full plumage within the year in which it is hatched ; for the little 

 chick we have noticed above, and figured in the Plate, has already begun to moult, and in the midst of 

 the fulvous feathers of the breast some white-edged ones are appearing. We have received from our 

 good friend Mr. Meves a full-grown young bird, killed on the 3rd of August, 1871, which is fast gaining 

 the adult dress, but retains the marks of immaturity about the head and neck in the shape of fulvous 

 spots on the feathers, which give these parts a mottled appearance : the upper surface of the body is 

 very dark, and much varied with black, especially on the scapulars ; and the black centres to the feathers 

 show conspicuously on the under surface ; the bill is blackish, with scarcely so much yellow on the 

 lower mandible as in the before-mentioned chick. 



Specimens of Hazel-Grouse from various localities certainly differ somewhat. We have not been able to 

 examine a series complete enough to enable us to state accurately these variations from our own personal 

 observation. Wheelwright, in his ' Spring and Summer in Lapland/ observed that in those that he shot at 

 Quickjock, in Lapland, the plumage was lighter and prettier than in the Wermland Hazel-Grouse. Lord 

 Lilford has lent us a specimen from Styria which is very much more rufous than any of the Scandinavian 

 examples which have come under our notice. In ' Naumannia ' for 1855 {I.e.), Brehm has named several 

 subspecies; and, again, in the 'Journal fur Ornithologie' for 1860 (p. 393) he gives the following particulars. 

 " The European Hazel-Grouse," he says, " are easily divided into several subspecies. In the northern birds 



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