Book IF. O^U^lTHOLOgY. i 7? 



This Bird is found on high Mountains beyond Seas, and as we are told in Ireland, 

 (where they call it, Cock of the Wood) but no where in England. At Venice and 

 Padua wefaw many to be fold in the Poulterers Shops,brought thither from the neigh- 

 bouring Alps, 



I take the Grygallus major o£Gefner and Aldrovandus ( who alfo calls it the Tetrax 

 of Nemefianus ) to be the Female of this Bird. For the Females in this kind of Birds 

 in variety and beauty of colours excel the Males. Whereas Gefeier taking it for 

 granted, that the Females do in no kind of creature excell the Males in variety of co- 

 lours, being deceived by this prelum ption,took and defcribed for different Species the 

 different Sexes in both thefe kinds, vm> the Cocl^of the Mountain, and the hlack^game: 

 And fo of two Species made four 5 to wit, 1. IJragallus major. 1. Grygallus major. 

 3. TJrogallus minor. 4. Grygallus minor. The fecond and fourth being the Females 

 of the firft and third. Moreover, being himfelf miftaken,he thought Turner to be fo : 

 Who makes the Male Morehen, that is the leiTer Tetrao, or leiler Orogallus of Gejher, 

 to be black 5 the Female all variouily fpotted, fothat if it were not bigger and reclder 

 than a Partridge ,it could hardly be diftinguiined from it. Aldrovandus follows Gejher, 

 making theGrygallus major ofGefner (that is,the Female of the Vrogallus major) the Te- 

 trax of Nemefianus 5 without caule reprehending Longolius, who indeed was of the 

 fame opinion 3 whereas he himfelf erroneoufly makes the Male and Female of the Cock 

 of the Mountain [fUrogallus major~] diverfe ordiftincl: kinds.So then the cafe (lands 

 thus : 



5 Cock of the Mountain the Male 1. The greater Vrogallus, Gefn.Aldrov* 



■' c Cock of the Mountain the Female 2. The greater Grygallus, Eorund. 



3 Black game or Grous the Male — 3. The leiler Vrogallus, Eorund. 



" 1 Black game the Female ■ — — ■ 4. The leiler Grygallus, Eorund. 



The flefti of this bird is of a delicate tafte and wholfom nouriftiment, fo that be- 

 ing fo (lately a bird, and withal fo rare, it feems to be born only for Princes and great 

 mens Tables. 



§. 11. 



The Heathcocl^or Blacky game or Grous, called by Turner the More hen. Tetrao, 



feu Urogallus minor. 



THe Cock weighed forty eight ounces : was in length from the point of the Bill 

 to the end of the Tail twenty three inches, [ The Hen was but nineteen inches 

 long. ] Its breadth thirty four inches [ the Hens thirty one. ] 



The Cock is all over black, but the edges of the feathers, efpecially in the Neck 

 and Back, do (hine with a kind of blue glofs. His Legs are grey. The Female is of 

 the colour almoft of a Woodcoc^ov Partridge, red with black tranfverfe lines. The 

 Bread and Belly are hoary, The Wings underneath and the long feathers are white, 

 as in the Cock. The middle of the Back is of a deeper red. The Rump and edges 

 of the feathers on the Throat are hoary. The feathers under the Tail white. 



In each Wing are about twenty fix beam-feathers : In the Cock the bottom of the 

 fifth of thefe is white, of the eighth and fucceedingto the twenty fixth the whole 

 lower half. Of the eleventh and following feathers to the two and twentieth the 

 tips are alfo white. The long feathers under the moulders are purely white. In the 

 Hen the ten outmoft feathers are dusky, the reft of the fame colour with the body, 

 favingtheir tips, which are whitiih. The bottoms of all but the firft fix are white. 

 Moreover, thofe great quil- feathers, which, as we faid, are dusky, have fomething 

 of white in the outer borders. The Wings underneath, and thofe longer feathers in 

 both Sexes are white, which when the Wings are clofed appear outwardly on the 

 Back inythe form of a white fpot. 



^-XheTail confifts of fixteen feathers, and is in the Cock near feven inches long 5 

 [ Underftand this of the exteriour feathers, for the interiour do not exceed four 

 inches. ] In the Cock the three exteriour feathers on each fide are longer than the 

 reft, and ftand bending outward, the fourth on each fide (liorter, and lei's refleded. 

 In the Female the outmoft feathers are indeed longer than the reft, but not reflected. 

 The Tail is of the fame colour with the body, only the tips of the feathers of a hoary 



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