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The Black Game. Tetrao feu Urogallus minor. 



Numb. XXII. 



ITS Length from the tip of the Bill to the end of the Tail is 22 Inches ; its Breadth 

 when the Wings are extended, 36 Inches; its Weight 48 Ounces; (this Bird I had 

 from Sir Robert Abdy out of Wejimoreland, from which generous Gentleman I have receiv'd 

 ja great many curious Birds) it was all black, with a fhining blue Glofs on the Edges of 

 the Feathers of the Neck and Back ; the Legs dark gray ; the Toes pedinated on both 

 Sides. It had in each Wing 26 quill Feathers with 2 tranfverfe Bars of white, and a Spot 

 of the fame on each Shoulder; the Tail was made up of 16 Feathers, the exterior of 

 which was near 7 Inches long, the interior do not exceed 4 Inches ; the 3 exterior Feathers 

 are longer than the reft and bending outwards ; the fourth on each Side fhorter and leis 

 rcflefted ; the Tail is of the fame Colour of the Body, only the Tips of a hoary white. 



The Bill is black and crooked; the upper Chap fomewhat prominent and gibbous; un- 

 der the Tongue is a kind of a glandulous Subftance ; in the Pallet a Cavity imprefled equal 

 CO the Tongue ; the Tongue is undivided, foft and fomewhat rough. 



The Eye-brows are bare and red ; the Ears large ; the Legs rough and feathered on the 

 fore Part ; the Toes naked and conneded by a Membrane as far as the firft Joint ; the 

 Claw of the middle Toe is on the infide thinned into an Edge; it had no Spurs. 



Its Guts are 51 Inches long; its blind Guts 24 Inches ftriate with 6 Lines; the Craw 

 large and full of Ling or Heath, on the Tops of which they feed ; the Pouts do a long 

 time accompany their Dams, even after they are come to their full Growth. 



The Cocks of the black Game keep together and the Hens by themfelves, and arc 

 Seldom or never feen together ; their Time of feeding is the Morning and Evening, and 

 in the Middle of the Day they retire to the Woods, and fometimes perch on Trees. 



They are frequent in the mountainous Parts of Darbyjhire, Wejimoreland, Cumberland 

 and moft of the Northern Parts of England and Scotland. 



There is a large Species of this Kind in Norway, called I'ieure, as large as a Bujiard; the 

 Head and Leg of which I received from my good Friend Mr. Boquet. It was all over 

 grifly black with a beautiful fhining green Glofs on the Edges of the Feathers on the 

 Neck and Breaft ; and having all the other Charaderifticks belonging to the former. It 

 weighed 10 Pound, they are taken by the Boors in the inland and mountainous Parts 

 of Micfcovia, and brought down to Archangel, and fent as a choice Prefent to our Englijh 

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