204 G R O U S. ClafsIL 



III. The G R O U S. 



Gallinacampefiris. G/rflW/o/o^^r. Moor-cock, or Moor-fowl. Sih. 



Hihern. 706. Scot, i 6. 



Red Game, Gorcock, or Moor- La Gelinoce Hupee. BriJJon anj. 



cock. iriL orn. 177. i 20g. 



Lagopus altera Plinii. Rait fyn. La Gelinote d'EcofTe, Bonafa 



^X'. 54. Scotica. Idem 199. //2^. 22. f, I. 



Br.Z-JoL'6<^. plate M. 3. 



Defer. ^ I "^HE male weighs about nineteen ounces. The 

 i length 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, an 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 

 bread and belly are of a dull purplifh brown, crofled 

 with numerous narrow dufisy lines : the quil feathers 

 are dulky : the tail confifts of fixreen feathers of an 

 equal length, all of them (except the four middlemoft) 

 arc black, and the middle feathers are barred with 

 red : the thighs are of a pale red, barred obfcurely 

 with black : the legs and feet cloathed to the very 

 claws with thick foft white feathers ; the claws arc 

 whitifh, very broad and ftrong. 



The female weighs only fifteen ounces. The colors 



in general are duller than thofe of the male : the 



bread and belly are fpotted with white : and the tips 



of fome of the coverts of the wings are of the fame 



■ _ color. 



