244 * grous. 



11.— HELSINGIAN GROUS. 



Tetrao canus, Ind. Orn. ii. 640. Gm. Lin. i. 753. Mas. Carls, i. t. 16. Tern. Man. 



Ed. ii. 464, Id. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. iii. 707. A. 

 Das bunte Haselhuhn, Besek. Kurl. p. 70. Bechst. Deutsch. ii. 134. 

 Gelinotte grise, Tab. Encyc. Orn. 200. pi. 188. f. 11. 

 Helsingian Grous, Gen. Syn. Sup. 217. 



LENGTH fifteen inches. Bill black; general colour of the 

 plumage hoary white, obscurely undulated with brown, the ends of 

 the feathers being of that colour; wing coverts brownish, with a 

 whitish spot at the ends ; vent white ; tail clouded above with hoary 

 white and brown ; beneath brown on the sides ; but from the elon- 

 gation of the vent feathers, appears as if marked with a triangular 

 white spot; the legs covered with feathers to the toes, which are 

 naked and black. 



A specimen of the above was sent to Dr. Sparrmann, from the 

 Province of Helsingia, in Sweden ; said to be pretty frequent in a 

 particular spot; from the colour of the tail it cannot be a Variety of 

 the Ptarmigan, in any stage, more probably related to the Hazel 

 Grous, being somewhat similar. M. Temminck thinks it to be a 

 mere Variety of the last named. 



12.— NEMESIAN GROUS. 



Tetrao Nemesianus, Ind. Orn. ii. 637. Gm. Lin. i. 748. Scop. i. No. 171. Aldr.Orn. 



1. 13. cap. 8. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. 464. 

 Nemesian Grous, Gen. Syn. iv. 735. 



SIZE of the Black Grous ; body black and rufous mixed ; tail 

 rufous, tipped and spotted with black; secondaries tipped with white ; 

 one sex is said to have the base of the neck marked with transverse 

 bands of black, and the belly spotted with rufous and black. 



