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BLACK GROUS. 



Class IT. 



2. Black. f Tetrao Tetrix. T. nigro-viola- 

 cea, cauda bifurca, remigi- 

 bus secundariis versus basin 

 albis. Lath. Ind. orn. 635. 

 id. Syn. iv. 733. id. Sup. r. 

 213. 



Urogallus minor (the Male). 

 Gesner av. 4Q3. Grygallus 

 minor (the Female). 4g6. 



Fasan negro, Fasiano alpestre, 

 Urogallus sive Tetrao minor 

 Gall us Scoticus sylvestris. 

 Aldr. av. ii. 32. 160. 



Rati Syn. av. 53. 



Heath-cock, black Game, or 

 Grous. Wil. orn. 173. 



Tetrao tetrix. Gm. Lin. 784. 

 Orre. Faun. Suec. sp. 102. 

 Le Coq-de-bruyeres a queue 



fourchue. Brisson av. i. 186. 



Hist. oTois. ii. 210. PL 



Enl. 172, 173. 

 Cimhris mas Urhane, fcemina- 



Urhoene. Norvegis Orrfugl. 



Btunnich, 1Q6. 

 Berkhan, Schildhan. Kram. 



356. 

 Birckhahn. Frisch. i. 10g. 

 Gallo sforcello Italis. Scopoli, 



No. 169. 

 Br. Zool. 85. Tal. M. 1. 2. 



Arct. Zool. 1. 367. 



Manners, jl HESE birds, like the former, are fond of 

 wooded and mountanous situations ; they feed 

 on bilberries, and other mountain fruits, and 

 in the winter on the tops of the heath. They 

 are often found in woods ; this and the preced- 

 ing species perching like the pheasant : in the 

 summer they frequently descend from the hills 

 to feed on corn ; they never pair, but in the 

 spring the male gets upon some eminence, 

 crows and claps his wings ;* on which signal 



* The ruffed heathcock of America, a bird of this genus, does 

 the same. Ediv. Gl. p. 80. The cock of the wood agrees too 



