NATURALIST'S CABINET. 



Manners of the young Description. 



times even before they are entirely disengaged 

 from the shell. The hen leads them forward to 

 procure ants' eggs, and the wild mountain-berries, 

 which while young are their only food. As they 

 grow older, they feed upon the tops of heath ; 

 and the cones of the pine-tree. In this manner 

 they soon come to perfection ; they are an hardy 

 bird, their food lies every where before them, 

 and it would seem that they should increase in 

 great abundance ; but this is not the case ; their 

 numbers are thinned by rapacious birds and beast* 

 of* every kind, and still more by their own salas- 

 cious contests. 



The whole brood follows the mother for about 

 two months, at the end of which the young males 

 entirely forsake her, and keep in great harmony 

 together till the beginning of spring, when they 

 bid adieu to all their former amity. They then 

 consider each other as rivals, fight like game- 

 cocks, and are so inattentive to their own safety 

 that it often happens that two or three of them 

 are killed at a shot. 



THE RVF1&DGROUS 



IS in size between that of a pheasant and a 

 partridge. The bill is brownish. The head is 

 crested; and, as well as all the upper parts, is 

 variegated with different tints of brown mixed 

 with black. The feathers on the neck are long 

 and loose ; and may be erected at pleasure, like 



