356 RED GROUS. Class II. 



Sweden, and described by Linnceus in his Faun. 

 Saec. sp. 201. by the title of Tetrao caudd bi- 

 furca subtus albo punctata, in Swedish, Rackle- 

 hane or Rqflare. The legs of this and the prece- 

 ding kind are feathered only to the feet ; they 

 both inhabit woods in the winter ; therefore na- 

 ture hath not given them the same kind protec- 

 tion against the cold, as she has the grous and 

 ptarmigan, who must undergo all the rigor of 

 the season beneath the snow, or on the bare 

 ground. 



3. Red. Tetrao Scoticus. T. rufo et Lagopus altera Plinii. Rati 



nigricante transversim stria- Syn. av. 54. 



tus, rectricibus sex utrinque, Moor-cock, or Moor-fowl. Sib. 



exterioribus nigricantibus. Scot. l6. 



Lath. Ind.orn.6<il.id. Syn. Attagen. Brisson av. i. 20Q. 



iv. 746. id. Sup. i. 216. Hist, d'ois. ii. 252. 



Tetrao Lagopus. y et 8. Gm. La Gelinote d'Ecosse, Bonasa 



Lin. 750. Scotica. Brisson av. ]QQ. 



Gallina campestris. Girald. tab. 22. f. i. Hist, d'ois. ii. 



topogr. Hibern. 706. 242. 



Red Game, Gorcock, or Br. Zool. 85. plate M. 3. 



Moor-cock, Wil. orn. 1 77. 



Descrip- XHE male weighs about nineteen ounces:* 



TION. ° 



the length is fifteen inches and a half; the 

 breadth twenty-six. The bill is black; the 

 nostrils covered with red and black feathers ; 



* I have since heard of one shot in Yorkshire which weighed 

 twenty-nine ounces. 



