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welcome gueft, that mull not be abufed. Their manner of breed* 

 ing is unknown to me. 



The Tiur, Teer, Todder, Ursegallus Major, the Cock of the Tiur. 

 Wood, is a large Wood-bird, in the general appearance not un- 

 like an Eagle, and is the largeft of all the eatable Birds in this 

 country. It refembles a wild Turkey-cock, efpecially in the 

 bill and feet, tho' the claws are fomewhat more crooked i 

 this is to be underflood of the cock, who is black, and fome- 

 tlmes of a dark-grey, and has fome red about the eyes. The hen, 

 called Roy, is much lefs, and is brownifh, with black fpots*: 

 they generally are found in great woods, where they live upon 

 juniper-berries and fir-tops : this may be perceived by the tafte of 

 their flefh, which is otherwife very tender, and an excellent difb 

 roafted : it has from this food that refinous tafte for which it" is fo 

 remarkable. In Winter they bury themfelves in the (now, like the 

 Partridge and Growfe, but not deep ; nor do they ftay there in 

 the night. This is the reafon that they are deftrojed by the 

 fox, who knows how to find out their unfafe quarters. They 

 have alfo a dangerous enemy in the Gofs-hawk, which they do 

 not oppofe, tho' -they are much larger. When they are abouC 

 breeding it is faid the cock fwells, and raifes his feathers like a 

 Turkey-cock, and makes a fort of cracking noife with his bill. 

 Some writers make no other difference betwixt the Cock of the 

 Wood and the lefler Tetrao, than that they are a larger fort of 

 the fame fpecies, and call this Urogallus, Tetrao Major. By the 

 Venetians, Gallo di Montagna. Angl. Cock of the Mountain, or 

 of the Wood. 



Trsea-Pikker. See Spette. 



Troll:. See DroiTell. 



SECT. VIII. 



Vagtelj Coturnix, the Quail, a fmall, delicious, and fcarce Va gtei, 

 Bird : it is found in fome places in the eaft country, and alfo at 

 Jedderen ; but here I have not feen them. 



Vibe, the Plover, a well-knoWn Bird, of a middling lize, vib«, 

 of a brown and grey colour, and diflinguifhed by a tuft on the 

 back part of his neck, and by the uncommon noife which be- 

 trays his neft when he wants to conceal it: there are not many of 



* Grygallum majorem Gefneri & Aldrovandi hujus avis Foeminam effe exiftimo, 

 feemina eriim in hoc genere avium, colorum varietate & pulchritudine mares excel- 

 lunt. Cum vero Gefnerus putaverit, in nullo animalium genere foeminam mari pul- 

 chritudine anteire, praefumpta hac opinione deceptus in utroque urogalla feu Tetraone 

 majore fcilicet & minore diverfum fexum pro diverfa fpecie habuit & defcripfit, 

 Willoughb. Ornitholog. Lib. ii. c, 12. §. 1. p. 124. 



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