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MiIxeEpD 
BREED. 
BLACK -COtCK: Gia 
and white; but the laft predominates. The back, 
coverts of the wings and tail are of the fame colors 
as the neck, but the red is deeper: the inner webs 
of the quil feathers are mottled with black and 
white: the inner coverts of the wings are white; 
and in both fexes form a white fpot on the fhoulder. 
The tail is. flightly forked; it confifts of eighteen 
feathers variegated with red and black. The fea- 
thers under the tail are white, marked with a few 
bars of black and orange. This bird hatches its 
young late in the fummer. It lays from fix to eight 
egos, of a dull yellowifh white color, marked with 
numbers of very fmall ferruginous fpecks; and 
towards the fmaller end with fome blotches of the 
fame hue. 
Befides the common fpecies of black cock, M. 
Briffon mentions a variety found in Scotland, under 
the name of /e cog de bruyere piqueté, or {potted 
black cock. It differs from the common fort in 
being fpotted on the neck, breaft, wings and thighs 
with red. This I fuppofe to have been a {purious 
breed between this and the former fpecies, as the 
Tetrao Hybridus of Linneus is. 1 could not learn 
that this mixed race was found at prefent in North 
Britain, perhaps becaufe the cock of the wood is 
now become fo very rare. It is alfo found in Swe- 
den, and defcribed by Linneus in his Faun. Suec. — 
fp. 201. by the title of Tetrao caudéd bifurcd fubtus — 
albo punéata, in Swedifo, Racklehane or Roflare: the 
legs of this and the preceding kind are feathered 
: only 
