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of this kind found in Scotland was in Chicholm’s great foreft, in 
Strathglafs. 
Albin gave a figure of it in his Ornithology, publithed fixty years 
fince, and then he feems not to have known that it was a Britifh 
fpecies ; he calls it the Mountain Cock from Mufcovy. From this 
we may infer that the breed was nearly extirpated half a century ago. 
According to moft authors it thrives beft in cold countries. It is 
found in Italy, but only in the higher regions, where the air is bleak. 
In Ruffia it is not uncommon, particularly in the Afiatic part of 
that empire. “There is a variety of this fpecies much fmaller than 
the common fort, which is probably owing to-the fevere cold of the 
climate in which it lives, being found in Lapland and Norway, the 
fartheft extreme of Europe towards the Icy Sea. 
The male of this fpecies is two feet nine inches in length, breadth 
four feet, and is as large as a Turkey*. ‘The female is fmallery 
twenty fix inches in length. The bill is dufky, throat red, neck 
and back marked with tranfverfe bars of red and black: a few white 
fpots on the breaft, the lower part of an orange colour, belly barred 
with pale orange and black, the tips of the feathers white; the fea- 
thers of the back and fcapulars black, the edges mottled with black 
and pale reddifh brown: the fcapulars tipped with white, the inner 
webs of the quills dufky; the exterior mottled with pale brown: the 
tail of a deep ruft colour, barred with black and tipped with white. 

* In Scotland it is known by the name of Capercalze, Aver-calze, and in the old 
law books Caperkally : the laft fignifying the borfe of the woods. In Germany it is 
galled Aur-han, or Urus, Wild Ox Cock.—-Pennant. 
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