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CCXI, 



TETRAO TETRIX, fmu 



BLACK GAME, female. 

 Galling. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Near the eyes a fpot which is either naked, or papillous, or rarely 

 covered with feathers. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



S YNONYMS. 



Violet black ; tail forked : fecondary quill-feathers white towards 

 the bafe : male. Red, varied with cinereous, and black tranfverfe 

 ftriae : female. 



Tetrao Tetrix : nigro-violacea, cauda bifurca, remigibus fecun- 

 dariis verfus bafin albis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 635. 



Tetrao Tetrix : cauda bifurcata, remigibus fecundariis balin 

 verfus albis. Linn. Fn. Suec. 202. — Scop. 

 Ann. L n. 169. — Br'tin. Dm. n. J 96. J 



Tetrao /Urogallus minor. Gefn. av. 494. 

 Vol. IX. F Petit 



