Clafs IF. BLACK COCK. ioi 



the breafl has fome white fpots on ir, and the lower 

 part is of a plain orange color : the tail is of a deep 

 ruft color barred with black. 



\l The B L A C K C O C K. 



Uiogallus minor (the male.) Tetrao tetrix> X?'«. fyfi. zj^. 



Gcfner a'v. 493* Grygallus Orre, Faun. Sttec./p. 102. 



minor (the female.) 496. Le Coq-de-bruyercs a queue 

 Fafan negro, Fafiano alpeflre, fourchue. 5r/^/r a'i;, i, 186. 



Urogallus five Tetfao minor Cimbris mas Urbane, famina 



Gallus Scoticus fylveflris. .^/rfV. Urhoene. Nor^eg^s Orrfugl. 



a<v. ii. 32. 160. Brunnich 196. 



Raii Jyn. a-u. 53, Berkhan, Schildhan. Kram, 356. 



Heath-cock, black Game, or Br. Zool. S^. ta^.M. 1. 2. 



Grousi Pp^il em. 173. 



THESE birds, like the former, are fond of 

 wooded and mountanous fituations i they feed 

 On bilberries, and other mountain fruits ; and in the 

 winter on the tops of the h6ath. They are often 

 found in woods ; this and the preceding fpecies perch- 

 ing like the pheafant : in the fummer they frequently 

 defcend from the hills to feed on cofn : they never 

 pair ; but in the fpring the male gets upon fome emi- 

 nence, crows and claps his wings * -, on which fignal 

 all the females within hearing refort to him : the hen 

 lays feJdom more than fix or fevert eggs. The young 

 males quit their mother in the beginning of winter ; 

 and keep in flocks of feven or eight till fpring •, during 



* The ruffed heathcock of Jfhericd, a bird of this genus, does 

 the fame. Ediv. GL p. 80. The cock of the wood agrees too irt 

 this exultation during the amorous feafon ; at which time the pea- 

 fahts in the J/ps, directed by the found, have an opportunity of 

 killing them. 



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