242 grous. 



10.— HASEL GROUS. 



Tetrao Bonasia, Ind. Orn. ii. 640. Lin. i. 275. Faun. svec. No. 204. Id. Retz. No. 



187. Gm. Lin. i. p. 753. Scop. i. No. 173. Brun. No. 200. Muller, No. 224. 



Frisch, t, 112. Kramer, 356. 4. Georgi, p. 175. M i. 191. Jd 8vo. i. 53. 



Borowsk. ii. 191. Gerin. ii. 84. t.238. TWm. Man. 291. 7d. Ed. 463. Id. Pig. 



Sf Gall.m. 174. 

 Attagen, Gallina Corylorum, Bonosa, Gesn. Av. 199. &c. t. p. 203. 

 Lagopus Corylorum, Klein, 116. 3. Id. Stem. 25. t. 26. 3, a. b. Id. Ov. 33. 1. 15. 4. 

 Gallina Corylorum, Rati, 55. 6. Will. 126. t. 31. 

 Das Haselliuhn, Naturf. xvii. 71. Zd. xviii. 235. Bechst. Deuts. iii. 500. 1. 18. Zd. 



Ed. 2.iii. 1318. Schmid, Vog. 101. t. 89. 

 Gelinotte, £«/. ii. 233. pl.7. Zd. 5o?m. v. p. 41. f. 2. PI. enl. 474. 475. Faun.Helvet. 



Tab. Enc. Orn. 197. pi. 91. f. 4. 

 Hasel Grous, Gen. Syn. iv. 744. ^rcf. Zuol. ii. 317. F. JF«//. Engl. 175. pi. 31. 



SIZE of the Guernsey Partridge ; length fourteen inches. Bill 

 short, black ; round the eyes bare, wrinkled, and crimson ; head 

 somewhat crested ; plumage on the upper part of the back and rump 

 most inclined to the last; the feathers at the base of the upper man- 

 dible black ; on each side of the nostrils a small white spot ; between 

 the bill and eye another ; and a third behind each eye ; chin and 

 throat black, surrounded with white ; fore part of the neck rufous 

 grey, banded with black ; belly and thighs marked with black 

 crescents ; vent pale grey ; wing coverts marbled with rufous and 

 brown, marked with black, and here and there a white dash ; quills 

 grey brown within, with rufous tips ; tail composed of sixteen 

 feathers, the two middle like the back, and others grey marbled with 

 brown, with a broad black bar near the tip ; legs and claws grey ; 

 shins feathered before for half the length. 



The female wants the black on the throat and chin, and the red 

 skin about the eyes is smaller, and less conspicuous. 



Inhabits Germany,* particularly at the foot of the Alps, and 

 the high mountains in Silesia, Poland, &c. also in numbers about 



* Common about Vienna, and much esteemed.— Brown's Trav. p. 154. 



