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with a few bars of black and orange. This bird 

 hatches its young late in the fummer. It lays from 

 fix to eight eggs, of a dull yellowifh white color, 

 marked with numbers of very fmall ferruginous 

 fpecks ; and towards the fmaller end with feme 

 blotches of the fame hue. 



Befides the common fpecies of black cock, M. 

 Brijjon mentions a variety found in Scotland^ under the 

 name of le coq de hruyere pqnete^ or fpotted black 

 cock. It differs from the common fort in being 

 fpotted on the neck, bread, wings and thighs with 

 red. The female is grey fpotted with black ; and 

 both fexes are marked ovi their lower fides with white. 

 This kind has not fallen within our notice ; but M, 

 B7i£onh account has been confirmed to us by a gen- 

 tleman who a few years ago vifited the Highlands of 

 North Britain: it is alfo found m Sweden, and def- 

 cribed by Linn^us in his Faun. Suec. fp. 201. by the 

 title of Tetrao caudd hifurcd fubtus albo pmi^ata, in 

 Swedijh, Racklehane or Roflare : the legs of this and 

 the preceding kind are feathered only to the feet : 

 they both inhabit woods in the winter ; therefore na- 

 ture hath not given them the fame kind protecftion 

 againft the cold, as (he has the grous and ptarmigan, 

 who muft undergo all the rigor of the feafon beneath 

 the fnow, or on the. bare ground. 



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