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only to the feet: they both inhabit woods in the 
winter ; therefore nature hath not given them the 
fame kind protection againft the cold, as fhe has 
the grous and ptarmigan, who muft undergo all the 
rigor of the feafon beneath the fhow, or on the bare 
ground. 
Gallina campeftris. Gzrald. La Gelinote Hupée. Briffon 
topogr. Hibern. 706. M.'s 200s, HA Ops, 
Red Game, Gorcock, or Eh. 262. 
Moor-cock, W7l. orn. 177. La Gelinote d’Ecoffe, Bonafa 
Lagopus altera Plinii. Raiz Scotica. Idem 199. tab. 22. 
Syn. av. 54. fea. fief. 2’Oys. Tl. aan 
Moor-cock, or Moor-fowl. Sid. Br. Zool. 85. plate M. 3. 
_ Scot. 16. 
HE male weighs about nineteen ounces. 
The leneth is fifteen inches and a half: 
the breadth twenty-fix. The bill is black: the 
noftrils covered with red and black feathers: the 
irides hazel colored. At the bafe of the lower 
mandible, on each fide, is a white fpot: the throat 
is red. The plumage on the head and neck ‘is 
of a light tawny red; each feather is marked with 
feveral tranfverfe bars of black. _ 
The back and fcapular feathers are of a deeper 
red, and on the middle of each feather is a large 
black fpot: the breaft and belly are of a dull pur- 
plifh brown, croffed with numerous narrow dufky 
lines: the quil feathers are dufky: the tail confifts 
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