﻿G R O U S. 



729 



*With FOUR TOES. 



Tetrao urogallus, Lin, Syji. i. p. 273. 1. (the male.) — Faun. Suec. N° 200. — 

 Scop. «»*.i.N° \6g.—Brun. N° 194. 195. — Muller, N° zzi.—Frifch. 

 pi. 107. 108. — Kram. el. p. 356. I. — Georgi Reife, p. 172. 



Le Coq de Bruyere, Brif. orn. i. p. 182. 1. 



ou le Tetras, Buf. olf. ii. p. 191. pi. 5. — PL enl, 73. 74. 



Mountain Cock and Hen, Albin. ii. pi. 29. 30. 



Cock of the Wood, Ran Syn. p. 53. A. i. — Will. orn. p. 172Y pi. 30. — 



Jtr. Zool. i. N° 92. pi. 40. 41. — Tour in Scotl. 8vo. p. 79. pi. 15. 16. 



— Ar3. Zool. 



Lev. Muf. 



+• WOOD GR. 



^T 1 HIS fpecies is as large as a Turkey, and two feet nine inches 

 in length. The bill is nearly two inches long, very ftout, 

 and horn-coloured : over the eye a naked red fkin : irides hazel: 

 noftrils covered with fhort feathers ; thofe of the chin and throat 

 are black, and longer than the reft : the head and neck are afb- 

 colour, delicately marked with tranfverfe narrow blackifh lines : 

 the upper parts of the body and wings are chefnut-brown, irre- 

 gularly marked with lines of a blackifh colour : the feathers at 

 the fetting-on of the wings are white : the breaft of a very gloffy 

 blackifh green : the reft of the under parts black; but the belly, 

 and feathers over the thighs and vent, are marked with white : 

 fides marked as the neck : the tail confifts of eighteen feathers, 

 and rounded in fhape, marked on each fide with a few fpots of 

 •white : the legs are ftrong, covered with brown feathers : the 

 ^dges of the toes pectinated. 



The female differs exceedingly; is much fmaller : in length 

 only twenty-fix inches. The bill dufky : throat red : head, 



Vol. II. 5 A neck, 



Descriptioh, 



Female. 



