200 C R O U S. Clafs IL 



merly found ; it inhabits wooded and mountanous 

 countries ; in particular, forefts of pines, birch-trees, 

 and junipers ; feeding on the tops of the former, and 

 berries of the Jatter ; which often infefls the fiefh 

 with fuch a tafte, as to render it fcarce eatable. It 

 lays from fix to eight eggs. 

 Defer. The length of the male is two feet eight inches j 

 the breadth three feet ten ; its weight fometimes four- 

 teen pounds. The female is much lefs, the length 

 being only twenty-fix inches ; the breadth forty. 

 The fexes differ alfo greatly in colors. The bill of 

 the male is of a pale yellow : the noftrils are covered 

 with dufl<:y feathers : the head, neck and back are 

 elegantly marked, flender lines of grey and black 

 running tranfverfely. The feathers on the hind part 

 of the head are long, and beneath the throat is a large 

 tuft of long feathers. The upper part of the breaft is 

 of a rich gloffy green, the reft of the breaft and the 

 belly black, mixed with feme white feathers : the 

 iides are marked like the neck : the coverts of the 

 wings crofted with undulated lines of black and red- 

 difti brown : the exterior webs of the greater quil 

 feathers are black : at the fetting on of the wings is a 

 white fpot •, the inner coverts are of the fame color : the 

 tail confifts of eighteen feathers, the middle of which is 

 the longeft •, they are black, marked on each ftde with 

 a few white fpots : the vent feathers black mixed 

 white. The legs very flrong, covered with brown 

 feathers : the edges of the toes pedinated. 



The female differs greatly from the male : the 

 bill is duiky : the throat red : the head, neck and 

 back are marked with tranfverfe bars of red and black; 



the 



