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of fixteen feathers of an equal length, all of them 
(except the four middlemoft) are black, and the 
middle feathers are barred with red: the thighs are 
of a pale red, barred obfcurely with black, the 
leos and feet cloathed to the very claws with thick 
foft white feathers*; the claws are whitifh, very 
broad and ftrone. 
The female weighs only fifteen ounces. The 
colors in general are duller than thofe of the male: 
the breaft and belly are fpotted with white: and the 
tips of fome of the coverts of the wings are of the 
fame color. The red naked part that lies above 
the eyes is lefs prominent than in the male, and the 
‘edges not fo deeply fringed. 
We believe this fpecies to be peculiar to the 
Britifo ands; not having met with any account 
of it, except in the writings of our countrymen 
Mr. Ray and Willughby, and in M. Briffon under 
the name of Bonafa Scotica; the fame writer de- 
{cribes it again by the title of Attagen, but his 
references are either to authors who have copied 
our naturalifts, or to fuch who mean quite ano- 
ther kind. Mr. Ray feems to think his bird, the 
other Lagopus of Pliny +, or the Francolino of the 
* The feet in the figure given by M. Brifon are engraven 
naked, or bare of feathers. T'he fpecimen probably came to 
that gentleman in that condition: his defcription in other re- 
{peéts is very accurate. 
+ Eft et alia nomine eodem, a coturnicibus magnitudine 
tantum differens, croceo tinétu cibis gratifiima. lib. x. c. 48. 
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