GROUS. 245 



In the other sex the neck, cheeks, and breast, are rufous, and not 

 spotted ; we are not told where this bird was met with, probably in 

 Italy, as the name given to it was in compliment to the Latin Poet 

 Nemesianus.* 



13— BIRCH GROUS. 



Tetrao betulinus, bid. Orn. ii. 637. Gm. Lin.\. 749. Scop. i. No. 172. Tern. Man. 



Ed. ii. 464. 

 Gvygallus minor, Aldr. Orn. 1. 13. cap. 9. 

 Birch Grous, Gen. Syn. iv. 735. 



THE plumage of this bird is black and rufous mixed, rump 

 whitish, fasciated with black; breast pale cinereous ; quills tipped 

 with white ; tail black, marked with transverse rufous spots ; bill 

 and legs black ; no red over the eyes. 



In the Turrian Museum was a specimen of one of these birds, 

 but from whence it came is not mentioned ; it is most probable that 

 this and the last described are related to the Hazel Grous, and not 

 unlikely in the imperfect plumage of a young bird. 



14— WILLOW GROUS. 



Tetrao albus, Ind. Orn. ii. 639. Gm. Lin. i. 750. 



Tetrao Saliceti, Temm. Man. 295. Id. Ed. ii. 472. Id. Pig. Sf Gall. iii. 208. t. Anat. 



ii. f. 1. 2. 3. 

 Tetrao Lagopus, Faun. suec. No. 203. Id. Ed. Retz. No. 186. Brun. No. 198. 199. 

 Ripa major, Ameen. ac. i. 349. Sckaef. H. Lapl. t. 347. Leem's Lapl. 243. 

 Perdrix des Saules, ou Muet, Hearn's Voy. 4to. 388. 

 Lagopede de la Baie d'Hudson, Buf. ii. 276. Id. Sonnin. vi. p. 53. 

 White Partridge, Ell. Huds. Bay,\. pi. 1. Edw. pi. 72. Kalm. 2Vaw.iit. 58. 

 White Grous, Gen. Syn. iv. 743. Arct. ZooL ii. No. 183. Frankl. Narr. App. p. 681. 



THIS is much larger than the Ptarmigan; length sixteen inches 

 and a quarter, breadth twenty-three; weight twenty-four ounces. 



* This author wrote Poems on Hunting and Bird-catching, in the third century. See 

 Burman vet. script, rei venat. 4to Lugd. Bat, 1728. 



