232 grous. 



be in size and weight equal to a full grown Cock Pheasant ; head, 

 neck, breast, and belly, fine glossy black ; back, wings, and tail, 

 pale russet, curiously streaked, somewhat in the manner of a Hen 

 Partridge; tail much shorter than that of the Hen Pheasant, blunt 

 and square at the end ; legs and feet naked, not being at all feathery; 

 toes not pectinated ; legs not furnished with a spur behind, the colour 

 of them yellowish brown ; the bill is short and thick, very like that 

 of the Black Grous ; but the bare crimson skin is wholly continued 

 round the eye, as in the Pheasant ; and it is not improbable to be a 

 a spurious mixture between the two last named birds, as it seems to 

 partake of both. It was shot in a coppice belonging to Lord Stowel, 

 by one of his keepers, not far from Selborne, in Hampshire. The 

 only objection to this supposition is, that according to the Rev. Mr. 

 White, the Black Grous was then thought to be extinct at Selborne, 

 and had been so for some years past. 



5.— SPOTTED GROUS. 



MALE. 



Tetrao Canadensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 637. Lin. i. 274. Gm. Lin. i. 749. 

 Bonasa freti Hudsonis, Bris. i. 201. Id. Sup. p. 10. Id. 8vo. i. 56. 



Canadensis, Bris. i. 203. t. 20. f. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 57. 



Lagopus freti Hudsonis, Klein, Av. 117. 6. 



La Gelinotte de Canada, Buf. ii. 279. Id. Sonnin. vi. p. 58. PL enl. 131. 

 Tetras tachete, ou Acaho, Temm. Pig. fy Gall. 8vo. iii. 160. bis. a. 

 Black and Spotted Heathcock, Edw. pi. 118. 



Spotted Grous, or Wood Partridge, Gen. Syn. iv. 735. Id. Sup. 1\A. Arct. Zool. ii. 

 No. 182. Phil. Trans, lxii. 389. Frankl. Narr. App. p. 683. 



FEMALE. 



Tetro Canace, Lin. i. 275. Gm. Lin. i. 749. 3 b. 



Bonasia Canadensis, Bris.\. 203. t. 20. f. 2. Id. Svo. i. 57. 



Gelinotte du Canada, PI. enl. 132. 



Brown and Spotted Heathcock, Edw. pi. 71. Ell. Huds. Bay. i. pi. p. 50. 



Spotted Grous, Gen. Syn. iv. 735. 



SIZE of the Ptarmigan ; length from fourteen to eighteen inches, 

 breadth twenty-three inches and a half; weight twenty-three ounces 



