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TETEAO UROGALLUS. 



(CAPERCAILLIE.) 



Tetrao urogallus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 274 (1766). 



Le Tetras, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ii. p. 239 (1772). 



Tetrao major, C. L. Brehm, Naturg. Deutschl. p. 503, " Germany " (1831). 



Tetrao maculatus, id. torn. cit. p. 504, " Renthendorf " (1831). 



Tetrao crassirostris, id. torn. cit. p. 504, "Karnthen" (1831). 



Tetrao maculatus, id. Vogelfang, p. 260, " Scandinavia " (1855). 



Tetrao urogallus crassirostris (Br.), Olph-Galliard, Cab. Journ. 1860, p. 391, " Switzerland." 



Urogallus maculatus (Br.), id. torn. cit. p. 392, " Switzerland." 



Cog de bruyere et Poule de bruyere, French ; Auerhahn and -huhn, German ; Tiur ( cJ ), Rqj ( 2 ), 

 Norwegian ; Tjdcler, Swedish ; Glouhar (3), Kopoluha ( 2 ), Russian ; Suer (d), Bos-suer ( 2 ), 

 Bashkir ; Chuckche (<3), Kon-dozmer ( $ ), Ziranin (Sabanaeff). 



Figures notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. pi. 73 (<J), 74 ($); Werner, Atlas, Gallinaces, pi. 2; Fritsch, Vog. 

 Eur. taf. xxvi. figs. 3, 4 ; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. xxxii. fig. 2 ; Gould, Birds of Eur. 

 pi. 248 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 154, 155 ; Bettoni, Ucc. Lomb. tav. 108. 



d ad. capite et collo saturate griseis nigro vermiculatis : dorso, scapularibus et tectricibus alarum rufescenti- 

 bruimeis nigro vermiculatis : uropygio et supracaudalibus nigris grisescente albido vermiculatis, his 

 albido apicatis : Cauda nigra, plumis nonnullis medialiter albido notatis : remigibus saturate fulvis, in 

 pogonio externo ferrugineo marmoratis, secundariis fulvidis, ad basin nigro et versus apicem albido 

 vermiculatis et albido apicatis : subtus niger, mento purpurascente nitente : pectore conspicue viridi 

 nitente et imo vix griseo vermiculato : abdomine albido notato : tibia? et tarsi plumis pallide brunneis, 

 illis albido terminatis : subcaudalibus nigris, albo notatis et apicatis : subalaribus nigricantibus, griseo 

 vermiculatis et albido terminatis, nonnullis albidis : rostro albicante corneo : pedibus brunneis : iride 

 brunnea. 



2 ad. capite, collo et corpore suprk pallide ferrugineis, nigro transfasciatis, plumis nonnullis albido apicatis : 

 remigibus fulvis, in pogonio externo ferrugineo marmoratis : secundariis fulvidis, ferrugineo marmoratis 

 et albido apicatis : tectricibus alarum dorso concoloribus et rufescente isabellino apicatis : cauda et 

 supracaudalibus ferrugineis, nigro transfasciatis et marmoratis et albido terminatis : subtus pallide 

 ochrascenti-ferruginea : pectore vix nigro guttato : abdomine indistincte nigro transfasciato, plumis 

 albido apicatis : crisso et tarsi plumis albidis : subcaudalibus ochrascenti-ferrugineis, nigro notatis et 

 albido apicatis : subalaribus albis, nigro notatis : rostro brunnescenti-corneo. 



Adult Male (St. -Petersburg market). Head and neck dark slaty grey, each feather narrowly and irregularly 

 barred with black ; feathers on the chin black, glossed with purple, and much elongated ; back, sca- 

 pulars, and wing-covcrts dark reddish brown, narrowly vermiculated with black ; rump and upper taii- 



